More critics of a draft business data service order are pressing the FCC to delay a vote planned for the April 20 meeting of commissioners, so far to no effect. The U.S. Small Business Administration and others said more time is needed to address deregulatory BDS proposals in the draft they say would harm business market competition and customers. If nothing else, the agency should create a three-year transition for implementing a new framework, some said. Some are skeptical there will be a pause.
Some doubt Chairman Ajit Pai will delay the April 20 commissioner vote on business data service rules despite Incompas asking the FCC to put it off until summer so a list of counties deemed competitive can be publicly reviewed and the commission can do a cost-benefit analysis. The request drew opposition from incumbent telcos' main trade group. A Pai spokesman didn't comment Tuesday but had dismissed a similar call from Commissioner Mignon Clyburn Monday (see 1704100068). Meanwhile, stakeholders stepped up lobbying efforts ahead of the scheduled imposition of Sunshine Act restrictions at Thursday's close.
Some doubt Chairman Ajit Pai will delay the April 20 commissioner vote on business data service rules despite Incompas asking the FCC to put it off until summer so a list of counties deemed competitive can be publicly reviewed and the commission can do a cost-benefit analysis. The request drew opposition from incumbent telcos' main trade group. A Pai spokesman didn't comment Tuesday but had dismissed a similar call from Commissioner Mignon Clyburn Monday (see 1704100068). Meanwhile, stakeholders stepped up lobbying efforts ahead of the scheduled imposition of Sunshine Act restrictions at Thursday's close.
Verizon resisted service-quality regulations proposed in the New York Public Service Commission probe of reliability of the company’s copper network. The carrier responded to the New York Department of Public Service, which in Friday testimony (docket 16-00424) said Verizon isn’t spending enough to address problems. The Communications Workers of America testified that the telco allowed copper to crumble (see 1703240044). Hearings start in the New York PSC probe June 26. The company has come under fire for copper network reliability in other states.
With AT&T, Verizon and a couple of hundred other companies reducing advertising spending with Google over problems that some ads were placed next to extremist or other objectionable content on YouTube and elsewhere, some experts said the miscues could hurt Google. They said brand safety is one issue among several that's troubling the ad industry.
With AT&T, Verizon and a couple of hundred other companies reducing advertising spending with Google over problems that some ads were placed next to extremist or other objectionable content on YouTube and elsewhere, some experts said the miscues could hurt Google. They said brand safety is one issue among several that's troubling the ad industry.
With AT&T, Verizon and a couple of hundred other companies reducing advertising spending with Google over problems that some ads were placed next to extremist or other objectionable content on YouTube and elsewhere, some experts said the miscues could hurt Google. They said brand safety is one issue among several that's troubling the ad industry.
The Maine Public Utilities Commission suspended the procedural schedule in the agency’s probe into FairPoint service quality reports while settlement talks continue, PUC Hearing Examiner Jody McColman said in a Friday notice in docket 2014-00376. The PUC held a settlement hearing behind closed doors Thursday. The PUC in October proposed $500,000 in civil penalties for service quality violations from Q3 2014 to Q2 2016, but the company protested the amount and blamed failures on reasons out of its control (see 1702230052). The agency also is mulling FairPoint's acquisition by Consolidated Communications (see 1703160040). FairPoint didn’t comment.
Aspiring Lifeline broadband providers and others urged the FCC to reinstate nine companies whose LBP designations were revoked by a Wireline Bureau order that Chairman Ajit Pai defends. State regulators opposed reinstatement and urged the commission to repeal its LBP process, which they say illegally bypasses state authority to designate carriers eligible for the USF Lifeline subsidies. LBP aspirants urged the FCC to at least make providers eligible for the program's low-income support in states where the federal commission has jurisdiction. Parties filed comments posted Thursday and Friday in docket 11-42 on requests to reconsider the Feb. 3 revocation order (see 1702030070 and 1703020059).
Aspiring Lifeline broadband providers and others urged the FCC to reinstate nine companies whose LBP designations were revoked by a Wireline Bureau order that Chairman Ajit Pai defends. State regulators opposed reinstatement and urged the commission to repeal its LBP process, which they say illegally bypasses state authority to designate carriers eligible for the USF Lifeline subsidies. LBP aspirants urged the FCC to at least make providers eligible for the program's low-income support in states where the federal commission has jurisdiction. Parties filed comments posted Thursday and Friday in docket 11-42 on requests to reconsider the Feb. 3 revocation order (see 1702030070 and 1703020059).