Competing Lifeline Draft Resolutions Return to NARUC
Conflicting draft resolutions on Lifeline are set to return for NARUC’s winter meeting Feb. 11-14 in Washington. NARUC Tuesday revealed four draft telecom resolutions on Lifeline, number portability and overlashing. District of Columbia PSC Chairman Betty Ann Kane and Nebraska…
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Public Service Commissioner Crystal Rhoades previously proposed the resolutions for NARUC’s November meeting, but the Telecom Committee decided to delay action (see 1711030024 and 1711130035). Kane and Rhoades disagreed on the FCC proposal to take away support for reseller services, with Kane in support and Rhoades against. The committee also plans to consider a Kane resolution about nationwide number portability (NNP). It would urge the FCC to carefully consider a North American Numbering Council report dated May 16, 2016 (see 1605170007), and to disclose for comment costs to consumers to implement NNP, cost recovery options for NNP implementation and timeline options for NNP implementation before adoption of rules. A fourth telecom resolution on pole attachments urges the FCC require “meaningful advance notice of overlashing to the pole owner” and compliance with all safety and engineering practices required of and by the pole owner. The draft resolution by U.S. Virgin Islands Public Services Commissioner Johann Clendenin responds to the FCC Nov. 29 further NPRM in docket 17-84 on streamlining wireline broadband infrastructure deployment.