Top NARUC officials met with FCC officials, including Chairman Julius...
Top NARUC officials met with FCC officials, including Chairman Julius Genachowski and commissioners Ajit Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel, in Washington during their winter meeting at various times, according to a detailed ex parte filing Monday (http://xrl.us/boezqk). The state commissioners reiterated…
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the significance of call completion problems and briefed the FCC officials on the association’s telecom task force on federalism and its goals. They noted that in “any consideration of [carrier of last resort] requirements, the FCC must consider first what gives the FCC authority to preempt obligations that are within the specific jurisdiction of the state and subject to state statutory process,” the filing said. “There was also some discussion of how the FCC could make the existing structures -- [meant] by Congress to be vehicles for cooperative federalism ... more useful, e.g., the Joint Board procedures.” The filing listed issues the task force will examine: “the impacts/issues associated with the rise of smart grid and the increasing nexus between telecommunications and other sectors, cybersecurity and relations with DHS; any State role with respect to the public safety agencies for interoperable broadband networks administered by FirstNet of NTIA; the strong role States must retain with respect to telecommunications infrastructure and disaster response; the impact on State staff resources as the telecommunications oversight role changes, the relation of privacy issues to services delivered by IP architecture and smart grid ... data and information transmitted over the networks of communications providers including whether they should be treated differently than that over networks owned and operated by the electric utility."