CPUC Proposes to Release 'Much' of AT&T/Frontier Study
Much of a California service quality report on AT&T and Frontier Communications should be made public, the Public Utilities Commission proposed Monday. Commissioners may vote at their Nov. 19 meeting on the plan to release the 2019 study. The CPUC…
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would redact certain information from the 584-page report that “could pose a security risk,” it said. Frontier expects to file comments about its "concerns regarding proprietary and sensitive information," a spokesperson emailed Tuesday. "It is imperative that sensitive competitive and security-related information about our network, which is used to provide 911 and other critical services, not be publicly disclosed." While AT&T appreciates "the CPUC’s desire to be transparent, we are concerned the commission will disclose proprietary information and issue a flawed report that ignores the real-world challenges of running of a telecommunications network," emailed a spokesperson, noting the carrier has exceeded the state's network reliability standard since 1990.