The North American Numbering Council meets virtually June 23 at 2 p.m. EDT, said an FCC Wireline Bureau public notice Friday. NANC will vote on recommendations for billing and collection fund size projections and contribution factor, and evaluate billing and collection agent Welch's performance.
The FCC tariff rate of return for incumbent LECs is 9.75%, effective July 1, said a staff order Friday. Price cap and RoR incumbent LECs will be required to "tariff separate rate elements for toll-free and non-toll free interstate and intrastate originating end office access service." The commission waived rules limiting the annual access charge tariff filing to rate-level changes. ILECs that didn't "separately track toll-free and non-toll free intrastate switched access demand for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2020" got limited waiver to allow them to "make the required comparison between interstate and intrastate revenue from end office access service using total demand" from both.
Pay Tel asked the FCC to reconsider “effectively classifying” all inmate calling services calls as “jurisdictionally 'interstate'” because it could cause a “potential, and presumably unintended, adverse consequence.” Pay Tel's analysis was posted Thursday in docket 12-375 and said those in 83% of about 3,800 facilities would face an average increase of more than 26% in their per minute rate for calls. Commissioners are expected to vote on new interim ICS rate caps during their Thursday meeting (see 2105120031).
The New York Public Service Commission voted 4-0 to clear a Frontier Communications action plan for emerging from bankruptcy. The telco submitted the plan in January required by the PSC in its October OK of the Chapter 11 reorganization (see 2010160044). It describes how Frontier will enhance service quality and network reliability. "We will have to remain very vigilant on this company in particular” to make sure they meet performance standards, said interim Chair John Howard at the commission’s livestreamed Thursday meeting. It exited Chapter 11 two weeks ago (see 2104300058). The approved plan includes $12.5 million for projects in 24 central offices identified as needing improvement, said the PSC. The company didn't comment.
Comments are due May 25, replies June 4, on the Interstate Telecom Relay Services Fund administrator's proposed compensation formulas, funding requirements and carrier contribution factors for FY 2021-22, said an FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau public notice Tuesday in docket 03-123. CGB also wants comment on T-Mobile's waiver request regarding IP relay service compensation (see 2103100061).
The FCC Wireline Bureau granted Community Care of West Virginia's request to review two Universal Service Administrative Co. decisions denying its request to recalculate 32 FY 2018 funding commitments, an order said Wednesday. The bureau directed USAC to revise CCWV's funding commitments because its urban rates had been publicly available.
Biennial recertification of study area boundary data is due June 30, said an FCC Wireline Bureau and Office of Economics and Analytics public notice Tuesday in docket 10-90. Incumbent LECs and state commissions that uploaded and certified new boundaries Dec. 31 to March 15 aren't required to recertify this year.
Providers participating in the FCC emergency broadband benefit program must make clear to eligible consumers that the temporary benefit is different from Lifeline, and charge households the required copay of $10-$50 toward the cost of a connected device, said an Enforcement Bureau advisory Tuesday. “Providers may be linking EBB program enrollment to implementation of technical changes necessary to retain the subscriber’s existing service or automatically enrolling subscribers that provide information needed for another purpose.” The $3.2 billion program starts Wednesday and will last until the funds run out or six months after the public health emergency ends.
The FCC Wireline Bureau OK'd Indiana Fiber Network's transfer of control request to Zayo, said a public notice Monday. Indiana Fiber Network becomes a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Zayo.
The FCC Wireline Bureau began investigating whether Core Communications' proposed tariff revisions comply with the 8YY access charge revamp order, an order said in Friday's Daily Digest. Verizon and AT&T filed a petition in April seeking such.