NARUC’s new telecom task force on federalism met in private...
NARUC’s new telecom task force on federalism met in private for much of Saturday, as Telecom Subcommittee Chair Gene Hand told his colleagues that morning. That task force, comprising several state commissioners and created at the November NARUC meeting (CD…
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Nov 14 p5), has occupied much of the National Regulatory Research Institute’s time, said Sherry Lichtenberg, who heads telecom research for the NARUC affiliate. “Commissioner [Phil] Jones, [NARUC] President Jones, put together the federalism task force to take a look at our existing 2005 telecommunications and federalism paper and see what needed to be updated and what NARUC should look like in terms of the changing of the network, the world going forward and how we as states can best work with all the organizations we work with,” she told her subcommittee colleagues. The task force can’t yet disclose much and wants “a process where everyone can speak their mind” and listen for now, she said. “The goals of the task force are a white paper, talking points as commissioners deal with various organizations and a resolution” integrating the paper and talking points into NARUC’s policy, she said, saying Jones intended the task force as a yearlong project and with greater plans to show these efforts at NARUC’s July meeting. Members of the FCC’s Technology Transition Task Force met with the NARUC task force Saturday, said Wireline Bureau Deputy Chief Carol Mattey Sunday.