Incompas Objects to Use of BDS Data in USTelecom Forbearance Proceeding

Incompas objected to incorporating any party's highly confidential and confidential business data services information collected in BDS proceedings into the USTelecom forbearance petition proceeding. Tuesday was the deadline for lodging an objection (see 1904030061). “Doing so would be inconsistent with and undermine the Commission’s forbearance rules, and would violate basic principles of procedural fairness,” Incompas said in a Tuesday posting in docket 18-141. “Allowing this additional data to be used in support of the Petition would violate the ‘complete-as-filed’ rule. … USTelecom could have proposed a modification of the BDS Protective Order at the time it filed its petition, but did not do so, even though it bore the burden of production.”