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CTC to study regulatory options on cellphones
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Posted on May 02 2006
The Commonwealth Telecommunications Commission has agreed to initiate a study of regulatory options pertaining to cellphone billings and service quality.
During Monday’s meeting, the commission adopted vice chairman J. Michael Fitzgerald’s motion to develop an analysis of regulatory options related to wireless providers’ non-preempted billing and service quality and the collection of a regulatory fee.
Assistant Attorney General Alan Barak was tapped as lead counsel to conduct the study, with the assistance by CTC private legal counsel Sean Frink.
CTC agreed to appropriate a budget allocation for Barak’s work.
Barak told the Saipan Tribune that he was assigned to look into the options and to draft regulations that will be put out for public comment.
Present at the hearing were Fitzgerald, chair Norman T. Tenorio, and secretary Josephine DLG. Mesta, Barak and Frink.
Meanwhile, the commission agreed to hear for another month the motion filed by the Office of the Consumer Counsel to impose a $100,000 sanction on Pacific Telecommunications Inc. for alleged violation of CTC’s order.
Frink said the motion was set for a month so the parties can try to settle the issue.
PTI maintained that it has complied with the requirements.
