Ensuring Customer Premises Equipment Backup Power for Continuity of Communications, PS Docket No. 14-174, Technology Transitions, GN Docket No. 13-5, Policies and Rules Governing Retirement Of Copper Loops by Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers, RM-11358, Special Access for Price Cap Local Exchange Carriers, WC Docket No.05-25, AT&T Corporation Petition for Rulemaking to Reform Regulation of Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier Rates for Interstate Special Access Services, RM-10593, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, FCC14-185 (rel. Nov. 25, 2014)(“NPRM”)
On Thursday, June 4, 2015, Brian Ford, Regulatory Counsel, on behalf of NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association (“NTCA”) along with David Cohen of GVNW Consulting, Inc., met with Jerome Stanshine and Brenda Villanueva of the Federal Communications Commission’s (“Commission”) Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau and Linda Pintro of the International Bureau. Also participating in the meeting by phone were Quentin Flippin and Brian Bell with Vantage Point Solutions and Jeff Smith and Randy Trostwith GVNW. NTCA, GVNW and Vantage Point (the “Rural Representatives”) discussed with the Commission staff customer premises equipment (“CPE”)battery backup proposals contained in a November 25, 2014, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”).