Minnesota PUC Allows Broadband Comments in Frontier Probe, Amid Jurisdictional Questions
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission won’t preclude broadband comments in a Frontier service quality probe, even with questions about the regulator’s jurisdiction, commissioners decided at a livestreamed Thursday meeting. Commissioners voted unanimously to modify an April 26 order in docket…
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18-122 so it no longer requires that the notice of public hearings clarify the limits of the commission’s jurisdiction over internet service. The Minnesota Department of Commerce sought clarification because it disagreed with Frontier's assertion that the PUC has no broadband authority (see 1805140015). Frontier customers will tell the commission about all their concerns with service at the hearings, said Commissioner Dan Lipschultz. “Some of what they say will relate to things within our jurisdiction and some of what they say will not,” he said. “That will have to get sorted out through the course of the proceeding.” An administrative law judge can do the sorting, said Lipschultz: “We all know that our jurisdiction is not unlimited.” Frontier declined comment. Minnesota is to argue it has jurisdiction over a cable VoIP service June 12 at the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (see 1805180013).