Vt. PUC Invites Public to Consolidated/Condor Hearing

The Vermont Public Utility Commission announced a March 7 hearing on Consolidated Communications' transfer of indirect ownership and control of its local subsidiaries to Condor Holdings, a subsidiary of private equity firm Searchlight. Consolidated will present the deal at 6:30 p.m. and a public hearing will follow, said a Thursday notice in docket 23-4353-PET. Under a schedule released Feb. 2, non-petitioners must file direct testimony by May 3 and the company must file a rebuttal by June 14. More briefs will be due three weeks after an evidentiary hearing planned for July 10-11. Reply briefs would be due two weeks after briefs are filed.