Cox in Cal. denied making improper ex parte contacts with Cal PUC...
Cox in Cal. denied making improper ex parte contacts with Cal PUC staff members working on a complaint by consumer group UCAN, alleging Cox and AT&T failed to comply with a PUC “warm line” rule requiring that all phone…
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lines be capable of placing calls to 911 regardless of whether there’s an active customer account on that line. UCAN last month alleged Cox and AT&T met with PUC staffers behind closed doors in mid- June to discuss motions for dismissal of the UCAN complaint (Case 05-11-011). Cox said the ex parte meetings in question didn’t discuss the UCAN case at all. Instead, Cox said, they occurred to discuss potential industrywide and statewide benefits if the PUC were to conduct a generic proceeding on telephone carriers’ 911 warm-line obligations. Cox said it and AT&T went to great lengths to avoid any discussions that violated ex parte rules.