CPUC Staff Urges Support for FCC Rural Call Completion Proposals
California Public Utilities Commission staff recommended support for proposed FCC rules requiring providers to monitor rural call competition performance of their intermediate providers and hold those providers accountable. Commissioners plan to vote Thursday on the proposed CPUC staff comments to…
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the FCC, due Aug. 28 on the federal agency’s second Further NPRM on proposed changes to rural call completion of long-distance calls (see 1708150014). Also in the staff comments posted Friday, the CPUC partly supported an FCC proposal to eliminate existing rural call completion data collection and reporting rules. “Similar to the approach taken in other recent dockets, in this FNPRM the FCC provides clear indication of the rules it proposes to remove, but does not simultaneously offer new rules it might adopt in lieu of those eliminated,” the staff wrote. “The draft proposed rules are unclear, and leave wide room for varying interpretations that would make monitoring and enforcement problematic. Instead, the FNPRM poses detailed questions about what the rules should be.”