A petition for reconsideration of the FCC's May 2010 pole attachment Order was filed by the Coalition of Concerned Utilities (composed of Allegheny Power, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Dayton Power and Light Co., First Energy Corp., National Grid, NSTAR, PPL Electric Utilities, South Dakota Electric Utilities and Wisconsin Public Service Company) last week.

In the petition, the Coalition requests that the Commission reconsider its Order and clarify its final rules as follows:

1. This nondiscrimination requirement applies only to the extent that the pole owner has allowed itself or others to use boxing, bracketing and other attachment techniques for communications wires in the communications space;

2. Going forward, a pole owner should be free to impose new boxing and extension arm requirements regardless of what it may have allowed in the past; and

3. For poles that are jointly-owned by an ILEC and electric utility, each joint owner should be permitted to limit the extent to which boxing, bracketing and other attachment techniques are permitted on jointly-owned poles.