NARUC formally adopted resolutions on federalism and surveillance at...
NARUC formally adopted resolutions on federalism and surveillance at the closing session of its annual meeting Wednesday. The resolution on federalism says cooperation and collaboration between state and federal regulators is the best way to ensure communications services remain universally…
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available, affordable and reasonably comparable across the country. Approval marked the end of a yearlong effort to produce an update of a white paper on federalism and telecom in the 21st century. The resolution passed with small grammatical changes and a new clause to recommend that states retain a “prominent role in all decisions related to USF,” added by the telecom committee Monday (http://bit.ly/1h2MSEs). The resolution on government surveillance was significantly changed in committee to say telecom carriers have a obligation to protect customer proprietary network information (CD Nov 19 p13). The staff subcommittee, composed of state commission staff, significantly changed a resolution on cramming to include cramming and porting in its Sunday meeting, but it decided to recommend it to the telecom committee, made up of state commissioners (CD Nov 19 p11). The telecom committee decided to table the resolution until its February meeting in Washington, D.C. for further discussion.