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 Nick Degani, Legal Advisor, and Trey O’Callaghan, Law Clerk, from the office of Commissioner Ajit Pai. 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”)