Technology Transitions, GN Docket No. 13-5; Ensuring Customer Premises Equipment Backup Power for Continuity of Communications, PS Docket No. 14-174
On Tuesday, July 7, 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 Travis Litman, Legal Advisor to Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel. 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”).