The North American Numbering Plan Administration will get $14.5 million in FY 2021, unless the FCC says otherwise in 14 days, the Wireline Bureau said in a Monday public notice in docket 92-237. That includes $6 million for creating a reassigned numbers database. The contribution factor will be 0.0001267, composed of 0.0000699 for NANP activities and 0.0000568 for the database. The FY 2020 factor that covered only NANP activities was 0.0000908. It’s lower this year due to a budget surplus, unlike last year when there was a deficit, the bureau said.

The Rural Digital Opportunity Fund order on reconsideration put on circulation last week rejects the Illinois Office of Broadband and Vermont Department of Public Service petitions for reconsideration of the RDOF order (see here and here), an FCC official told us Monday. The recon order wouldn't affect the RDOF auction, one said.

Windstream urged the FCC to clear its bankruptcy reorganization by Aug. 31. The deal “is structured in the same way as that addressed in the Fusion Connect, Inc. decision ... and there are no material differences here that would support departing from the Fusion precedent,” Windstream told staff. That's per a filing posted Friday in docket 20-151.

Due to COVID-19 disruptions to schools and libraries, the FCC Wireline Bureau granted waivers for E-rate FCC Form 471 applications submitted within 60 days after the filing window closing April 29. The order in Friday's Daily Digest directs Universal Service Administrative Co. to process the late filings. The bureau extended the deadline by 35 days in March due to the pandemic.

The telecom and competitive networks industries reached agreement on whether and how much access LECs need to provide to DS0, DS1, DS3 and operation support systems. USTelecom and Incompas said Thursday the agreement covers numerous interested CLECs and ILECs, and that it's a compromise between the sides. In a filing in FCC docket 19-308, they urged a draft order incorporating the compromise and laid out specifics. They said its dual non-impairment/forbearance approach increases the odds that such an order would be affirmed if appealed. They said the compromise is outside some of what they previously advocated, but it's within the FCC discretion and supported by the record. They said the commission has the authority to also craft a transitional period.

The California Public Utilities Commission conditionally opened 13 small LEC markets to cable and wireline competitors. Commissioners voted 5-0 for the proposed decision despite concerns raised by rural incumbents and would-be competitors (see 2007280058 and 2008040051). Federal and state law requires the commission to allow competition in the markets that cover 17 counties in hard-to-serve parts, said Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves at the agency’s livestreamed virtual meeting Thursday. She noted it’s “ironic” that the carriers that want to compete “often are some of the major barriers to competition elsewhere.” Conditions for possible entrants are nondiscriminatory and competitively neutral, she said. Commissioner Cliff Rechtschaffen said the decision “strikes the right balance by advancing competition,” with “many safeguards to ensure fairness, to ensure the quality of service and to safeguard consumer rights.” It gives wireline companies the same opportunity as wireless providers to compete with RLECs in the 13 markets, said Commissioner Liane Randolph. CPUC President Marybel Batjer called the decision “a cautious step forward.” The item focuses on voice amid a pandemic that shows people need the internet, so the commission should tackle that issue next, she said. Earlier in the meeting, members unanimously cleared a California Advanced Services Fund proposal as part of its consent agenda. The decision closes docket R.12-10-012 and authorizes staff to set application windows and timelines for broadband infrastructure account and allow staff to use state operations funds to provide technical assistance for tribes (see 2007060047). CASF “needs many more reforms statutorily,” said Guzman Aceves. The program’s 6/1 Mbps broadband standard is insufficient, but even under that many tribes are unserved, she said.

The FCC Wireline Bureau rejected two petitions seeking waivers of the March 1, 2019, deadline to upload and certify geocoded location information data with Universal Service Administrative Co. through the high-cost universal broadband portal (HUBB). Staff acted on a petition by ComSouth and Bloomingdale Telephone and a petition by State Telephone. “Petitioners have not demonstrated that there is good cause to waive the applicable sections of the Commission’s rules and, accordingly, deny the requested relief,” said a Wednesday order in docket 10-90: “It is the responsibility" of all eligible telecom carriers" to familiarize themselves with any applicable rules and ensure that its filings are timely received, regardless of the time and method.”

Comments are due Aug. 18, replies Aug. 25 on Radiate buying En-Touch Systems, parent of Houston-area cable operator and CLEC ETS Cablevision and ETS Telephone. The FCC Wireline Bureau said Tuesday the docket is 20-76.

Incompas wants FCC action on multi-tenant environment rules, the subject of a pending NPRM (see 1909030022). “Incumbent communications providers and landlords have used graduated revenue sharing and access fees as well as wiring and rooftop exclusivity arrangements to circumvent the Commission’s access rules and exclude competitive providers from MTEs,” Incompas said in a filing posted Monday in docket 17-142: “When used in combination with other exclusivity arrangements, exclusive marketing practices amount to de facto exclusive access and reduce the odds of a competitive provider being able to achieve penetration rates in MTEs that bring an acceptable return on their investment.”

Little Miami Gig, which offers wireline access in unserved and underserved areas in rural and Appalachian counties in Ohio, asked the FCC for a waiver after it missed the deadline to apply to bid in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund auction. “The Company, its investment capital and its key Contractors were severely impacted by the events in Ohio related to COVID-19, which prevented the Company from timely filing its short form application,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 19-126.