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The Regulatory Mix, TMI’s daily blog of telecom related 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 Briefing.
FCC
LNPA Transition
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau announced that the eighth LNPA Transition Outreach and Education Plan (TOEP) webcast will be held on August 31, 2016, from 3:00-4:00 pm EDT. The webcast will be hosted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, LLP the Transition Oversight Manager for the LNPA transition The objectives for the webcasts are: to provide transparent communications regarding the LNPA Transition; to serve as an open forum to gather and understand needs and concerns; and to incorporate feedback to improve future communications. Interested parties may register for the webcast here.
Robcalls
The FCC announced that it will host the first meeting of the Robocall Strike Force on August 19, 2016. See the Regulatory Mix dated 7/26/16. The Strike Force is an industry-led group that is committed to developing comprehensive solutions to prevent, detect, and filter unwanted robocalls. The first portion of the meeting will be open to the public. It is anticipated that Chairman Wheeler, Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, and Strike Force Chairman AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson will make remarks. The public session of the meeting will be streamed live at www.fcc.gov/live.
Alaska
The Regulatory Commission of Alaska has relaxed the tariff filing requirements in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau (the three competitive local exchange markets). The new rules allow most retail tariff revisions and special contracts for retail services and rates to become effective immediately without approval of the Commission. They also remove the requirement for prior customer notice of the change and allow customer notice to be made after implementation via a website posting. TMI Briefing Service subscribers see Briefing dated 8/11/16.
