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18 ? TO: Orange County Board of Commissioners FROM: Technical Review Task Force - Telephone Richard A. Helwiq, Chair DATE: Thursday, April 2, 1987 TOPIC: Proposed reply to NC Utilities Commission docket P-89, SUB 23 Long Distance Failures During April, 1986, replies to company comments on our request for corrective orders from the North Carolina Utilities Commission. The Telephone Technical Review Task Force respectfully submits to you its proposal for a reply to the third round of comments made by AT&T, Centel, and General Telephone, on our requests for specific corrective action . These comments were requested (ordered) by the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) . This proposed reply comes to you with the unanimous recommendation of the Task Force from its meeting of Wednesday, April 1, 1987. After both joint and separate filings by the three telephone companies through the NC Utilities Commission, and after meeting with eleven AT&T representatives, and with continual contact with Centel, the Task Force developed and substantiated several proposals for changes in the operating relationships and interconnections between the companies involved in the failure of long distance service to Orange County (Centel, General and AT&T) . The Orange County Commissioners submitted these proposals to the NCUC on October 23, 1986. The NCUC sought comments from each of the telephone companies on these proposals. And now we recommend to you yet another reply. These rounds of responses and replies should be drawing to a conclusion within the next several rounds. While it is possible that we may be asked to participate in a "ore-Hearing" conference, or a full Hearing on this matter it is more likely that our efforts will blend into other similar activities. It appears that the Regional Telephone Task Force of TJCOG is developing (and is likely to adopt) major sets of recommendations that will address most of the issues that we have been raising. The reply that we recommend to you includes a brief review of the issue, a clarification of viewpoint and then asks the NC Utilities Commission: 1) To keep all of our previous requests open. 2) To ask General Telephone, which serves eastern Orange subscribers, to respond to all previous questions as a Local Exchange Company, noting that General has responded only as a contractor between Centel and AT&T. 3) To order Centel and AT&T and General and AT&T to develop practical plans and budgets, for complete review, for implementing fault-tolerant and self-healing networks through their class 5 office levels. 4) To request progress reports on studies AT&T has initiated as . outlined in its response of August 28, 1986.