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.
TELECOM
FCC
The FCC released the agenda and panelist information for its Workshop on E-Rate Funded Fiber Build Projects scheduled for May 20, 2015. See the Regulatory Mix dated 4/9/15. The Workshop will provide E-rate applicants, providers, and state and local policy makers with information and tools for planning fiber build projects under the new E-rate rules, with a focus on issues applicants need to consider in order to choose the most cost-effective option for deploying fiber.
LNPA Transition
The FCC is seeking comment on the North American Portability Management LLC’s (NAPM LLC) Transition Oversight Plan relating to the FCC’s conditional selection of Telcordia Technologies, Inc. d/b/a iconectiv as the next local number portability administrator (LNPA). Interested parties may file comments on or before May 21, 2015, and reply comments on or before June 1, 2015. Among other things, the Plan will include dispute resolution mechanisms, a three-phase testing procedure; and stakeholder outreach and education. The NAPM LLC intends to engage the North American Numbering Council as the mechanism through which industry stakeholders, including small providers and state regulators, can participate.
Open Internet
The FCC has denied three petitions for stay of its Open Internet/Net Neutrality rules. See our 2/27/15 Blog FCC Adopts Net Neutrality Rules. TMI Regulatory Bulletin Service subscribers watch for a TMI Bulletin.
New York
The Public Utility Law Project of New York, Inc. (PULP) wrote a letter to the PSC urging them to proceed with a study on the state of telecommunications in New York. The letter says “It is undeniable that in the ten years since the Competition III order [case 05-C-0616], judging by the Commission’s own metrics, telephone service quality has suffered, cable television service quality has suffered, household telephone penetration has dropped to an unprecedented low, and lifeline membership has plummeted alarmingly. Consequently, the Public Utility Law Project finds it inconceivable that the Commission has issued no broad-based public study upon which to base the sweeping remedial actions necessary to reverse the crumbling of New York’s telephony services sector.” PULP asks that the PUC