Technology Transitions, GN Docket No. 13-5; Ensuring Customer Premises Equipment Backup Power for Continuity of Communications, PS Docket No. 14-174; Lifeline and Link Up Reform and Modernization, WC Docket No. 11-42; Telecommunications Carriers Eligible for Universal Service Support, WC Docket No. 09-197; Connect America Fund, WC Docket No. 10-90.
On Monday, July 6, 2015 Brian Ford, on behalf of NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association (“NTCA”), along with David Cohen and Jeff Smith of GVNW Consulting, Inc. (the “Rural Representatives”) met with Amy Bender, Legal Advisor to Commissioner Michael O’Rielly. The parties discussed the customer premises equipment (“CPE”) battery backup proposals contained in a November 25, 2014 Federal Communications Commission (“Commission”) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”).