AT&T Opposes Becoming Ohio 'Mini-ETC'
AT&T urged the Ohio Public Utilities Commission not to adopt staff’s recommendation to partly deny a petition to give up eligible telecom carrier (ETC) designation for all remaining Ohio areas it didn’t earlier relinquish (see 2203080039). Staff recommended requiring AT&T…
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to keep providing Lifeline discounts to seven customers lacking alternatives. Requiring AT&T to serve “as a ‘mini-ETC’ on a per-customer basis” doesn’t square with Section 214 of the Communications Act, which describes ETC obligations on a geographic basis, the carrier said in case 21-917-TP-UNC. AT&T isn’t aware of any state commission ever trying to “designate a carrier as an ETC for a specific customer location under Section 214(e)(3), and this proceeding is not the place to test that idea.”