CPUC Delays Tracfone Migration Case

An administrative law judge delayed until Dec. 1 the deadline to respond to Center for Accessible Technology’s Oct. 6 petition to modify the California Public Utilities Commission’s 2021 decision approving the Verizon/Tracfone deal. Nearing a possible settlement, Verizon and CforAT last week sought a pause in the proceeding regarding the carrier’s challenges with migrating Tracfone customers still using non-Verizon networks (see 2311030008). Since the CPUC won’t issue a proposed decision by Thursday, the commission won’t be able to decide the proceeding this year, noted ALJ Thomas Glegola in Friday’s email ruling in docket A.20-11-001.