NARUC Draft Seeks Clarity on State Broadband Oversight
NARUC may seek clarity on states’ ability to oversee federal broadband investment outcomes. Under a draft resolution for its Nov. 13-16 meeting in New Orleans, NARUC would urge Congress and the FCC “to ensure that significant federal and state broadband…
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policy objectives and investments are capable of delivering the results promised.” Congress or the FCC should “confirm or specify specific State authority to, among other things, enforce FCC or Congressionally established minimum service quality standards for federally subsidized services or provided over federally subsidized infrastructure, so that federally subsidized carriers operating in multiple jurisdictions would operate with minimum uniform requirements to perform their businesses,” the draft said. Once a state funds a broadband project and customers sign up, “from that point forward the State often has little ability to remedy customer complaints,” noted the proposed resolution. “Subscribers, including residential consumers, businesses, and many state lawmakers, do not understand this and are surprised that States regulate land line service of old, but not contemporary communications mediums.”