FCC Staff Grant Limited Waiver on CCA Broadband Filing Requirement Request
The FCC Wireline and Wireless bureaus and Office of Economics and Analytics partially granted the Competitive Carriers Association's request for clarification on submissions to the broadband data collection system by a certified professional engineer, said a declaratory ruling Friday in…
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docket 19-195 (see 2206160060). Mobile and fixed service providers' certifications of the accuracy of broadband submissions to the FCC don't need to be a certified professional engineer, the ruling said. A "corporate officer" with "at least a bachelor of science in engineering" and "direct knowledge" of a carrier's "network design and construction" satisfies the requirement. The bureaus declined to grant CCA's request that a corporate engineering officer "need not be a corporate officer" or be an engineer "if their qualifications demonstrate their expertise." The bureaus also granted a limited waiver allowing "an otherwise-qualified engineer" to certify submissions for "the first three filing cycles" of the broadband data collection.