THE REGULATORY MIX AND BLOG ARTICLES

Robin Norton, valued consultant and long time employee will retire from her position at Technologies Management, Inc. (TMI) on December 31, 2014. Since joining TMI in 1998, Robin worked diligently with local, long distance, operator service, and inmate service providers on state and federal regulatory compliance issues, providing outstanding support services to every client with whom she worked. Using her prior experience as a key staff member at the Florida Public Service Commission, Robin assisted our clients in developing and defending policy positions on a myriad of telecom regulatory issues including: confinement service, price caps, wireless certification requirements, mergers and transfers, and operator service regulations.

National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) preliminary results for January through June 2014 indicate that the number of American homes with only wireless telephones continues to increase. More than 2 in every 5 American homes (44%) had only wireless phones during the first half of 2014 – an increase of 3% since the second half of 2014.

While a typical day at Technologies Management, Inc. is a fast paced, deadline driven, regulatory and special project coordinating, customer service focused event, we still find a few minutes to indulge our extremely creative side. Each month we hold a brief event with cake to celebrate, commemorate, and share much deserved accolades among our productive troupe.

Technologies Management, Inc. ("TMI")  is pleased to announce the addition of Deborah Gainor and Sharon Warren as TMI Consultants

Welcome Deborah Gainor

Ms. Gainor brings a wealth of expertise in network optimization and implementation, vendor contract negotiations, acquisition network migration, and operational process management to TMI’s talented consulting team.

At Technologies Management, Inc., we assist a wide variety of telecom providers in calculating and filing access reduction rates. We have posted a number of blog articles to help keep our industry affiliates informed of developments (see previous blog articles  Further Switched Access Reductions Effective July 1, 2014 dated 4/1/14, and  Early Access Reduction Filings Ordered By Some States dated 5/5/14).

The Regulatory Mix, TMI’s daily blog of regulatory activities, is a snapshot of PUC, FCC, legislative, and occasionally court, issues that our regulatory monitoring team uncovers each day. Depending on their significance, some items may be the subject of a TMI Regulatory Bulletin.

After a long day of exhibits and sessions at the Energy Marketing Conference in New York, see our Blog “TMI attends the Energy Marketing Conference,”dated 3/6/14 my co-attendee, Tom Forte, and I left for JFK Airport on the afternoon of February 27th feeling tired, but thoroughly enthused by our participation in the Energy Marketing Conference. Our cab ride to the airport was filled with conversations about the innovative companies we had learned about and the entrepreneurial spirit we had witnessed among the Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) in attendance.

Technologies Management, Inc. (TMI) recently participated in the first Energy Marketing Conference (EMC) on February 27, 2014, in New York at the Affinia Hotel. The board member companies for the Energy Marketing Conferences, LLC include: Energy Choice Matters, TrustedTPV, Concentric Energy Advisors, Advanced Energy Capital, Customized Energy Solutions, and Northbridge Energy Partners. The event was well attended and we were very pleased to be able to attend the informative conference sessions (a rarity for exhibitors at events like this due to the overlapping scheduling of exhibits hours and conference sessions).

In December of 2013, the FCC’s Technology Transitions Policy Task Force said that its immediate goal is to understand the impact of technology transitions, including the transition to an all-IP Network, on consumers through diverse experiments and open-data initiatives. Commissioner Wheeler has his hands full as consumers, service providers, politicians, and the press push for ever faster migration to the better technology and how regulation will or will not be applied. See TMI’s Blog dated 12/13/13.

 

The Regulatory Mix, TMI’s daily blog of regulatory activities, is a snapshot of PUC, FCC, legislative, and occasionally court, issues that our regulatory monitoring team uncovers each day. Depending on their significance, some items may be the subject of a TMI Regulatory Bulletin.