CPUC Delays High Cost Fund-A Revamp, OKs Grant to Frontier
The California Public Utilities Commission extended by another two months the deadline for a rulemaking to revamp the California High Cost Fund-A program, which provides subsidies to 13 small rural LECs for basic phone service. The public utility code requires…
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quasi-legislative cases to be resolved within 18 months but allows the CPUC to extend it up to 60 days. At a meeting Thursday, commissioners voted unanimously to extend the deadline to Dec. 6 from Oct. 7. The CPUC also extended the deadline in July (see 1607180011). “Work has begun on a third revised scoping ruling in this proceeding but has not yet been completed,” CPUC said to justify the ruling. Also Thursday, the CPUC approved by consent a $545,690 Advanced Services Fund grant to Frontier Communications to build last-mile fiber in underserved Shingletown, California. The project is expected to provide speeds of at least 6 Mbps down and 1.5 Mbps up to 1,017 households, CPUC said. The higher bandwidth will help the community during wildfires, winter storms and earthquakes, and increase access to e-health services, CPUC said in the resolution. Also Thursday, AT&T and Webpass made a joint motion in docket A.16-05-015 to dismiss their interconnection dispute (see 1606230046). The companies said they reached a settlement, which they didn't detail.