the duration of any exemption from compliance with standards should be with the duration of the “consistent actual emergency conditions.” not adopting all of TURN’s recommendations, the revisions to the reporting requirement strengthen the G.O. standard by adding language that specifies when a catastrophic event begins and ends, thereby narrowing the exemption or waiver for noncompliance with the standards. The revisions also require carriers to provide specific data the catastrophic event and related outages in every quarterly report where such an event may impact compliance with the standards, no longer exempting the carrier from reporting the outages if they cause a delay of a month or more. TURN/NCLC/CforAT Opening Verified. 6. Geographic Granularity Comments on OIR, January 31, 2012, Joint Consumers argued that the p. Roycroft Declaration, p. 33 existing General Order metrics did not give the Commission an accurate Joint Consumers Reply Comments on picture of the affected communities and Sept 2014 Scoping Memo, November reliance on federal reporting for outages 13, 2014, p. 10, Roycroft Declaration misses outages that impact smaller p. 31 communities. Along with general calls AT&T Opening Comments on to eliminate the standards, carriers Alternate Proposed Decision, July 12, generally opposed proposals to obtain 2016, p. 2 more specific geographic data for Final Decision, p. 12-13 outage reporting, arguing that existing reporting requirements provide sufficient information and increased detail would be burdensome. The Final Decision discussed Joint Consumers’ proposal to use zip codes to identify sparsely populated areas impacted by outages. Joint Consumers supported a Staff proposal to require carriers to include zip code information in the raw trouble report data. The Final Decision agreed, requiring carriers to provide zip code information on trouble
the duration of any exemption from compliance with standards should be “consistent with the duration of the actual emergency conditions.” not adopting all of TURN’s recommendations, the revisions to the reporting requirement strengthen the G.O. standard by adding language that specifies when a catastrophic event begins and ends, thereby narrowing the exemption or waiver for noncompliance with the standards. The revisions also require carriers to provide specific data the catastrophic event and related outages in every quarterly report where such an event may impact compliance with the standards, no longer exempting the carrier from reporting the outages if they cause a delay of a month or more. 6. Geographic Granularity Joint Consumers argued that the existing General Order metrics did not give the Commission an accurate picture of the affected communities and reliance on federal reporting for outages misses outages that impact smaller communities. Along with general calls to eliminate the standards, carriers generally opposed proposals to obtain more specific geographic data for outage reporting, arguing that existing reporting requirements provide sufficient information and increased detail would be burdensome. The Final Decision discussed Joint Consumers’ proposal to use zip codes to identify sparsely populated areas impacted by outages. Joint Consumers supported a Staff proposal to require carriers to include zip code information in the raw trouble report data. The Final Decision agreed, requiring carriers to provide zip code information on trouble TURN/NCLC/CforAT Opening Comments on OIR, January 31, 2012, p. Roycroft Declaration, p. 33 Joint Consumers Reply Comments on Sept 2014 Scoping Memo, November 13, 2014, p. 10, Roycroft Declaration p. 31 AT&T Opening Comments on Alternate Proposed Decision, July 12, 2016, p. 2 Final Decision, p. 12-13 Verified.
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