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
Connecting Communities Tour
Commissioner Mignon L. Clyburn will conclude her #ConnectingCommunities tour on
10/19/16, with a Policy Forum in the Washington, D.C. area. Topics to be addressed include: Bridging the Affordability Gap; What is 5G?; Combating Inequality in the Communications Sector; Health Care: An Unfinished Chapter of the National Broadband Plan; and The Future of Viewpoint Diversity.
LNP Administrator
The FCC gave final approval to a recommendation that Telcordia Technologies Inc. d/b/a iconectiv serve as the nation’s next Local Number Portability Administrator (LNPA). The FCC found that Telcordia has submitted a Code of Conduct and Voting Trust Agreement ensuring that it will be an impartial LNPA and that Telcordia has effectively engaged in post-selection risk reduction activities to address the evolving cybersecurity threat environment. See News Release here and FCC Order here.
CTIA
CTIA announced the participating 16 wireless companies that successfully fulfilled the Smartphone Anti-Theft Voluntary Commitment to make anti-theft tools available - for free - on all new smartphones manufactured after July 2016 for sale in the U.S.
According to CTIA, the following network operators, device manufacturers and operating system companies fulfilled part 1 section B of the Commitment: Apple Inc.; Assurant; Asurion; AT&T; Google Inc.; HTC America Inc.; Huawei Device USA, Inc.; LGE Mobile Research U.S.A., LLC; Microsoft Corporation; Motorola Mobility LLC; Samsung Electronics America, Inc.; Sprint Corporation; T-Mobile USA; U.S. Cellular; Verizon and ZTE USA Inc.
South Carolina
The PUC has established deadlines in connection with its consideration of a petition asking it to require interconnected VoIP providers to contribute to the South Carolina Universal Service Fund (SCUSF) on a perspective basis. Petitions to Intervene must be filed by 8/24/16. TMI Briefing Service subscribers see Briefing dated 7/21/16.
