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Oakland Council OKs Bill for ISP Choice in MTEs
October 21, 2021 by Adam Bender|Wireline

Oakland's council voted 7-0 to pass legislation to require ISP choice in multiple tenant environments, in a consent agenda at a virtual meeting Tuesday. The proposal cleared a council committee last month (see 2109290031). It's "a direct concrete step municipalities can take to mitigate our broken broadband marketplace,” emailed Media Alliance Executive Director Tracy Rosenberg. “By granting every occupant the unchallenged right to use any provider that can service them, residents can use the most affordable and reliable services available to them” and competitive ISPs “can get footholds in new regions.” This follows a similar San Francisco law. Mayoral approval isn't needed, and the ordinance will become law Dec. 19, said Rosenberg: “The city will start sending out notifications to property owners shortly.”

Some 1,700 More RDOF Bids Ready to be OK'd
October 21, 2021 |Wireline

More than 1,700 additional winning FCC Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I bids, totaling more than $550 million, are ready to be authorized, said a Wireline Bureau public notice in docket 19-126. Letters of credit and bankruptcy opinion letters are due 6 p.m. EDT Nov. 3. “This is good news for consumers waiting far too long for broadband in parts of the country that have yet to be served,” said acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. The bureau denied two providers waivers for the program, in another order Wednesday. It partially denied LTD Broadband's petition for waiver of the June 7 deadline to receive eligible telecom carrier designation in Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota. LTD "failed to provide a compelling rationale or demonstrate special circumstances" to warrant waiving the deadline. Staff denied NW Fiber's petition for waiver of the Jan. 29 deadline to submit long-form applications: The company continues "to miss required deadlines and failed to complete the requirements of the program."

Frontier Says Minn. PUC Probe Can't Look at Internet
October 20, 2021 |Wireline

Frontier Communications sought reconsideration of a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission order setting the scope of a probe into how the company’s investment plans could affect service quality (see 2108260052). The order should be revised “to reflect the limitations on the scope of allowed investigation and discovery” intended by the legislature, Frontier said Tuesday in docket CI-21-150. Minnesota law doesn’t give the PUC jurisdiction over internet access or services, it said.

Wide Voice Opposes AT&T, Verizon Complaint Extension Request
October 20, 2021 |Wireline

Wide Voice asked the FCC to deny AT&T and Verizon's request for an extension to file a damages claim following a June 9 order granting a complaint about access stimulation rule violations, in an opposition posted Monday in docket 20-362 (see 2109280065). Wide Voice has until Nov. 29 to file a petition for review of the liability order and said knowing what the damages claim will be “will affect Wide Voice’s course of action” and “whether and how it petitions for review of the commission’s decision.”

Topics:Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
PK, CW Seek Comment Extension on Embarq Fla.
October 19, 2021 |Wireline

Extend the comments until Nov. 24, replies until Dec. 1, on Embarq Florida's Communications Act Section 214 discontinuance application of its legacy phone service, urged Public Knowledge, the Benton Institute for Internet & Society, Center for Rural Strategies, Common Sense Media, the Communications Workers of America, Incompas and the Media Alliance, in a request posted Monday in docket 21-298. Embarq's, now CenturyLink/Lumen, application "presents novel questions of law and policy" because the FCC "has never relied on wireless services alone to substitute for time-division multiplexing Incumbent local exchange carrier voice service," the groups said.

Topics:Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
ICS FNPRM Replies Extended to Dec. 17
October 19, 2021 |Wireline

The FCC Wireline Bureau granted Global Tel*Link's request to extend replies for a Further NPRM on interstate rate caps for inmate calling services, said an order listed in Monday's Daily Digest. The request was backed by the Wright Petitioners, Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, Free Press, New America’s Open Technology Institute, Public Knowledge and the United Church of Christ. Replies are now due by Dec. 17 in docket 12-375, following a previous extension to Oct. 27 (see 2108100036). The bureau denied GTL's request to extend comments on Paperwork Reduction Act and data collection.

FCC Tribal Library E-rate Session is Oct. 27
October 18, 2021 |Wireline

The FCC Office of Native Affairs and Policy and Wireline Bureau will host a virtual listening session on tribal library participation in the E-rate program on Oct. 27 at 2 p.m. EDT, said a public notice posted Friday.