The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities is suffering from...
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities is suffering from scheduling issues after Superstorm Sandy. It was unable to hold a Friday meeting, CenturyLink told the FCC, which affected the board’s ability to review the telco’s petition for state high-cost…
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support certification. The board’s public meeting is rescheduled for Tuesday, CenturyLink said. It described Sandy’s effect on the board and noted staff is “significantly hampered” in traveling to work due to storm damage. In a filing posted Monday (http://xrl.us/bn2jb9), CenturyLink asked the FCC for relief “to permit it to receive frozen high-cost universal service support” for the first quarter of 2013 despite missing the Nov. 16 FCC certification deadline. CenturyLink called the circumstances “highly unusual and unexpected” and warned against allowing the disaster to be “doubly devastating.” The board changed the meeting time due to “storm recovery activities,” a spokesman confirmed.