[39055] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SBC forcing new contract on ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Balling)
Tue Jun 26 01:18:43 2001
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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 22:18:02 -0700
To: Dee McKinney <deem@wdm.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>
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At 6:20 PM -0800 6/25/01, Dee McKinney wrote:
>I've never dealt with the California PUC yet....but in Alaska, it's
>called the RCA, for Regulatory Commision of Alaska, and has challenged
>the term "clueless". I'm wondering if there are any PUC commision members
>with any real understanding ?
Yes. There are some midwest states who do (or at least, "did" when I
worked for GTE TelOps) ... they proceeded from the principle of "If a
PUC person is dealing with this, whether $COMPLAINANT is right or
wrong, $UTILITY is paying us $SOME_HOURLY_RATE for the clerk's time
in dealing with it"...
GTE has (or at least had) a "cash buyout" that reps were capable of
giving (at the time, it was up to $500, with $1000 on supervisor
approval) ... so obviously the hourly "fine/rate" even for claims
where the utility was "right" was high enough to justify such. :)
D
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