CPUC May Vote Nov. 3 on CASF Broadband Changes
The California Public Utilities Commission may vote Nov. 3 on rule changes for the Broadband Infrastructure Account, the CPUC said Friday in docket R.20-08-021. The proposed decision would “implement recent legislation regarding project eligibility and other proposed modifications, including performance…
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criteria and project challenges,” it said. The CPUC received comments on a staff proposal last summer (see 2207060062 and 2206280032). AT&T and cable had expressed concern about the staff’s proposal to require applicants to freeze prices in project areas for at least five years. But under the draft, the CPUC would find “staff’s proposed modifications to the price commitment reasonable, given that grant recipients will be afforded the opportunity to request to raise prices for reasons outside of their control.” The CPUC doesn’t find proposed challenge process rules "so onerous as to effectively preclude entities from submitting a project challenge,” said the draft, disagreeing with cable and wireline industry comments. Since the process would require more information from challengers, the CPUC wouldn’t take up the Public Advocates Office’s recommendation to shorten the time frame for submitting challenges, it said.