Mich. PSC Grants Temporary License to Frontier Competitor

The Michigan Public Service Commission granted a temporary license to altafiber to provide basic local exchange service in Frontier Communications and AT&T zones and exchanges throughout Michigan. Commissioners Dan Scripps and Katherine Peretick voted yes at a Wednesday meeting. Joining the PSC only this week, Commissioner Alessandra Carreon abstained from voting on all orders at the meeting. The temporary license will expire upon the commission making a final order granting or denying altafiber’s application for permanent license, or in one year, whichever is sooner, said the PSC order in docket U-21449. The commission Monday set an evidentiary hearing Aug. 22 at 9 a.m. before Administrative Law Judge Christopher Saunders.