The California Public Utilities Commission should tell the FCC it...
The California Public Utilities Commission should tell the FCC it supports the federal agency’s rulemaking on call completion problems (CD Feb 8 p8), CPUC staff told the state’s commissioners in a Tuesday memo (http://bit.ly/ZGrbA1). The CPUC should support the general…
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direction of the NPRM and also “should urge the FCC to start enforcing its rules,” staff recommended. “The inability to complete long-distance calls to California’s rural customers is a significant threat to the integrity of the public switched telephone network and has the potential to compromise public safety.” Staff want “the FCC act as soon as possible to halt any industry malpractices that contribute to the problem, and penalize carriers as appropriate,” said another proposed CPUC recommendation, according to the memo. The FCC on Tuesday announced enforcement actions related to an investigation Tuesday. (See separate report in this issue.) States should also be able to see their own state-specific carrier data filed at the FCC as a result of FCC investigations into the problem, the CPUC staff memo proposed. California has encountered such problems, too, which “may not be as acute” as in some states but very real, as the state regulator found in a data collection from late 2012 through early February, the memo reported. “Ten of the 14 carriers reported a combined 213 non-terminated calls over a period of several weeks, 64 of which were reported as interstate calls, and 149 reported as intrastate calls,” the memo said. “This data indicate that approximately 30 percent of the non-terminated calls originated from out-of-state numbers."