customers will be protected during merger transitions. In addition to the public statements, parties filed written comments to review the testimony provided at the hearings as well as provide further evidence and information regarding the causes of call completion failures and outages, including analysis of specific outages. TURN provided detailed comments in response to the Assigned Commissioner’s Ruling and Proposed Decision. The Final Decision relies heavily on public testimony and written comments provided by TURN in this proceeding. TURN urges the Commission to find that it has made a substantial contribution to the record in this case. 2. Outage Reporting- Scoping Memo, May 6, 2015 at Verified Appendix A-3-4 The Scoping Memo requested TURN/CforAT Opening Comments on comments on whether the Scoping Memo, June 12, 2015, p. 6-7 current federal outage Assigned Ruling, Commissioner’s reporting thresholds were September 8, 2016, p. 7 sufficient to identify issues and TURN Comments on Assigned potential harms from Ruling, October 4, scale outages and outages Commissioner’s 2016, p. 3-4 impacting rural and sparsely populated communities. The TURN Reply Comments on Proposed Scoping Memo also solicited Decision, December 12, 2016, p. 4-5 proposals from parties for California-specific thresholds. Final Decision at p. 123, 128-129, 139, TURN urged the Commission 143, 145-146, 150, 165 to lower the reporting threshold for outages because many outages, especially in rural
customers will be protected during merger transitions. In addition to the public statements, parties filed written comments to review the testimony provided at the hearings as well as provide further evidence and information regarding the causes of call completion failures and outages, including analysis of specific outages. TURN provided detailed comments in response to the Assigned Commissioner’s Ruling and Proposed Decision. The Final Decision relies heavily on public testimony and written comments provided by TURN in this proceeding. TURN urges the Commission to find that it has made a substantial contribution to the record in this case. 2. Outage The Scoping Memo requested comments on whether the current federal outage reporting thresholds were sufficient to identify issues and potential harms from outages and outages impacting rural and sparsely populated communities. The Scoping Memo also solicited proposals from parties for California-specific thresholds. TURN urged the Commission to lower the reporting threshold for outages because many outages, especially in rural Scoping Memo, May 6, 2015 at Appendix A-3-4 TURN/CforAT Opening Comments on Scoping Memo, June 12, 2015, p. 6-7 Assigned Commissioner’s Ruling, September 8, 2016, p. 7 TURN Comments on Assigned Commissioner’s Ruling, October 4, 2016, p. 3-4 TURN Reply Comments on Proposed Decision, December 12, 2016, p. 4-5 Final Decision at p. 123, 128-129, 139, 143, 145-146, 150, 165 Verified Reporting- scale
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