Frontier Communications sought reconsideration of a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission order setting the scope of a probe into how the company’s investment plans could affect service quality (see 2108260052). The order should be revised “to reflect the limitations on the scope of allowed investigation and discovery” intended by the legislature, Frontier said Tuesday in docket CI-21-150. Minnesota law doesn’t give the PUC jurisdiction over internet access or services, it said.
Wide Voice asked the FCC to deny AT&T and Verizon's request for an extension to file a damages claim following a June 9 order granting a complaint about access stimulation rule violations, in an opposition posted Monday in docket 20-362 (see 2109280065). Wide Voice has until Nov. 29 to file a petition for review of the liability order and said knowing what the damages claim will be “will affect Wide Voice’s course of action” and “whether and how it petitions for review of the commission’s decision.”
The FCC Wireline Bureau granted Global Tel*Link's request to extend replies for a Further NPRM on interstate rate caps for inmate calling services, said an order listed in Monday's Daily Digest. The request was backed by the Wright Petitioners, Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, Free Press, New America’s Open Technology Institute, Public Knowledge and the United Church of Christ. Replies are now due by Dec. 17 in docket 12-375, following a previous extension to Oct. 27 (see 2108100036). The bureau denied GTL's request to extend comments on Paperwork Reduction Act and data collection.
Extend the comments until Nov. 24, replies until Dec. 1, on Embarq Florida's Communications Act Section 214 discontinuance application of its legacy phone service, urged Public Knowledge, the Benton Institute for Internet & Society, Center for Rural Strategies, Common Sense Media, the Communications Workers of America, Incompas and the Media Alliance, in a request posted Monday in docket 21-298. Embarq's, now CenturyLink/Lumen, application "presents novel questions of law and policy" because the FCC "has never relied on wireless services alone to substitute for time-division multiplexing Incumbent local exchange carrier voice service," the groups said.
The FCC Wireline Bureau issued a protective order with guidance for submitting confidential robocall mitigation program descriptions to the robocall mitigation database, said a public notice listed in Friday's Daily Digest.
The FCC Wireline Bureau OK'd Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I support for 469 bids, said a public notice in Friday's Daily Digest. Staff granted eligible telecom carrier designations for five winning bidders.
The FCC Office of Native Affairs and Policy and Wireline Bureau will host a virtual listening session on tribal library participation in the E-rate program on Oct. 27 at 2 p.m. EDT, said a public notice posted Friday.
The FCC Wireline Bureau wants comments by Nov. 15, replies Nov. 29, in docket 02-6 on an NPRM clarifying that all tribal libraries are eligible for the E-rate program, said Thursday's Federal Register (see 2110010070).
The FCC Enforcement Bureau got consent decrees with eight 911 service providers for failing to timely file annual reliability certifications for either 2019 or 2020, the agency said Thursday. Northeast Missouri Rural Telecom agreed to pay $7,500. Arctic Slope Telephone Association Co-op, Farmers Telephone Co-op, Jackson Energy Authority, Micronesian Telecom, South Central Utah Telephone Association and Sweetser Telephone each agreed to pay $6,000. Hayneville Telephone will pay $3,500. All providers agreed to establish compliance plans to avoid late filings in the future. “This should serve as a very clear reminder that compliance with 911 service rules is required," said acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel in a statement. The providers didn't comment. The deadline for filing 2021 certifications is Friday.
Duke Energy Florida asked the FCC to deny AT&T’s application for review of an August Enforcement Bureau granting the telco’s pole attachment complaint, in an opposition posted Wednesday in proceeding 20-276 (see 2108300033). The request "provides further evidence of AT&T’s anti-competitive mindset," Duke said, and its "opposition to negotiating a new reciprocal joint use agreement also undercuts the main thrust AT&T's complaint." The utility also filed a petition for reconsideration (see 2109290080).