The Regulatory Mix - Wednesday, September 14, 2016

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 CAF Funding

In August 2016, Frontier Communications Corp. notified the FCC that it intends to modify its Connect America Phase I Round 2 (Phase I) incremental broadband deployment plans.  Frontier submitted a list of 3,146 census blocks in CA, IL, IN, MI, NY, OH, OR, WA, and WV that it had not previously identified with its initial election where it now intends to serve locations using Phase I incremental support.  The FCC announced that existing providers have until Monday, October 24, 2016, to notify Frontier that they currently offer Internet service at speeds of 3 Mbps downstream and 768 kbps upstream or higher in the newly identified census blocks.  A machine readable list of the census blocks Frontier intends to serve is available at https://transition.fcc.gov/wcb/Frontier Census Blocks 08.26.16.xlsx. 

Oregon Basic Telephone Service

The Oregon PUC is seeking comment on a petition asking it to revise the definition of basic telephone service to include access to broadband service. The Petition was filed by the Oregon Telecommunications Association (OTA).  TMI Briefing Service subscribers see Briefing dated 9/12/16.

The Regulatory Mix - Monday, September 12, 2016