Amendments to Part 4 of the Commission’s Rules Concerning Disruptions to Communications, PS Docket No. 15-80; Proposed Extension of Part 4 of the Commission’s Rules Regarding Outage Reporting to Interconnected Voice Over Internet Protocol Service Providers and Broadband Internet Service Providers, PS Docket No. 11-82; New Part 4 of the Commission’s Rules Concerning Disruptions to Communications, ET Docket No. 04-35
On Friday, May 13, 2016, Jill Canfield, Vice President of Legal and Industry and Assistant General Counsel, on behalf of NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association, along with Jesse Ward, Industry & Policy Analysis Manager for NTCA, met with Jessica Almond, legal advisor to Chairman Tom Wheeler to discuss the Part 4 Network Outage Reporting System (“NORS”) Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that will be discussed and voted upon at the upcoming May 25 open meeting. During the meeting, NTCA stressed that many of the Commission’s proposals put forth in its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in March 2015 would significantly increase the reporting burden on small carriers and consequently have a corresponding negative affect on their rural consumers.
05.13.16 NTCA meeting with Legal Advisor J. Almond to discuss NORS, PS 15-80, 11-82, ET 04-35