The Enterprise Wireless Alliance offered additional information to...
The Enterprise Wireless Alliance offered additional information to the FCC and asked the agency to act on its longstanding reconsideration petition seeking clarification of customer proprietary network information rules. EWA earlier asked the agency to clarify whether non-interconnected Private Mobile…
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Radio Service (PMRS) carriers are telecom carriers under the Communications Act, subject to compliance with CPNI requirements. “The Recon Petition has been pending for over six years and is unopposed. EWA believes the issues raised in it are more than ripe for consideration,” the alliance said (http://bit.ly/13CGngX). “If, as suggested by the intervening FCC action, the FCC does not so classify PMRS carriers, action on the Recon Petition would resolve this issue not only vis-à-vis CPNI but with regard to telecommunications carrier obligations generally. EWA believes the Act is unambiguous in this respect ... but seeks a definitive resolution of this issue so that the obligations of this category of Commission licensee are clearly defined.” More is at stake than just CPNI, EWA said. “This classification has implications as varied as compliance with Accessibility Recordkeeping Compliance requirements and the need to submit the Form 499, Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet. In light of the significance of these requirements and the number of PMRS carriers affected,” the agency should “address this broader issue in response to the Alliance’s Recon Petition or in a separate Declaratory Ruling” and “do so based on the PMRS license classification rather than individualized showings,” said EWA.