The FTC announced details on an announcement it plans to make tomorrow in Chicago.
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The Regulatory Mix Today: FTC Will Announce Robocall Enforcement Sweep Tomorrow, California PUC Releases Broadband Adoption Gap Analysis, FCC BDS Secure Data Enclave
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The California PUC recently released an analysis on gaps in those subscribing to high-speed broadband internet. The Adoption Gap Analysis was ordered 2018 and identifies various demographic barriers to broadband adoption and provides information to support important program and grant decisions for the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) Broadband Adoption Account. The analysis looks at various potential factors and how they may affect adoption rates in California. Of all the factors analyzed, the analysis concludes that income is the most significant factor contributing to low adoption rates.
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau announced that access to the Secure Data Enclave containing highly confidential data submitted in the 2015 Data Collection in the price cap business data services (BDS) proceedings, will close after June 30, 2019. All parties’ data and work product stored in the Secure Data Enclave will be saved and archived as of June 30, 2019, pending potential judicial or administrative review. The Bureau said that, to date, no party has claimed that continued access to the data contained in the Secure Data Enclave past June 30, 2019 is necessary to their meaningful participation in the price cap BDS and USTelecom Forbearance Petition proceedings. Additionally, there is no evidence in the record that parties will suffer harm if the Secure Data Enclave closes after June 30, 2019. Accordingly, it found that ending access to the Secure Data Enclave will not affect parties’ meaningful participation in these proceedings.
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The Regulatory Mix, Inteserra’s 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 an Inteserra Briefing.