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Canadian ACH tool
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How Sonar Prorates Billing
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Leveraging PayPal as a Payment Method in Sonar
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Printed Invoice Batches: Overview
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Setting Up Payment Methods and Taking Payments
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Invoices in Sonar: Examples, Creation & Contents
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Calix SMx Integration: Overview
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Inventory List View: Overview
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Setup of Inventory: Manufacturers, Categories, and Assignees
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Jobs
Applying Task Templates to Jobs
Edit Job Options
Example Jobs & Templates
Geofences: Overview
Job Types: Best Practices
Jobs and Scheduling: Overview
Scheduling How-to: Creating and Booking a Job
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Setting Up Schedules General Overview
Mapping
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Combining Custom Fields & Task Templates for Information Storage
Custom Fields Overview & Use Cases
Custom Links: Overview
Task Templates Overview & Use Cases
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Building Alerting Rotations
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Assigning RADIUS Addresses
Assigning an IP Address Using Sonar's IPAM: How to
Automating IP Assignments, Data Rates, and Network Access in Sonar
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Building a Device Mapper
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Controlling Customer Speeds with Sonar: General Overview
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How Sonar Communicates - Egress IPs Explained
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IPAM: Basic Setup
IPAM: Overview
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MikroTik as an Inline Device: Integration With Sonar
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MikroTik: Setting Up a Sonar Controlled DHCP Server
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Network Dashboard: Overview
Network Sites: Management View Overview
PacketLogic: Integration With Sonar
Pulse, Polling, and PHP
RADIUS: Build-Out & Integration with Sonar
RADIUS: Building Reply Attributes
Setting Up CoA Proxy
Sonar Flow
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Using Multiple Network Devices in Sonar
Purchase Orders
Release Notes
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Enhanced Business Intelligence - Tips & Tricks for Advanced Users
How To Enhance Your Reporting With Custom Field Data
Report Licenses
Sonar's Business Intelligence: Overview
Understanding Sonar Reports
Security
Application Firewall: General Overview and Best Practices
Auth0: Overview
Multi-Factor Authentication: Overview
Password Policy In Depth
Removing a Terminated Employee In Sonar
Role Creation using GraphiQL
User Role Creation & Best Practices
Users: Overview
Sonar Billing
sonarPay
sonarPay Chargebacks & Disputes: Overview
sonarPay Disbursements: Overview
sonarPay Overview
sonarPay Reversals, Voids, & Refunds: Overview
sonarPay: Token Migration Process
System
A Deeper Dive into the New Sonar API
API Calls Using Third Party Applications: Personal Access Tokens
Browser Compatibility and Minimum Hardware Requirements for Sonar
Consuming the Sonar API
Controlling Your Landing Page: Personal Preferences
Customizing Your Customer Portal
Date/Time Picker: Overview
Dynamic Time Zones in Sonar
Filtering: Overview
Frequently Used Terms
Getting Your Data into Sonar
How To Use GraphiQL to Understand the Sonar API
How Your Data is Backed Up
How to Best Use Global Search
Interacting with Files via the API
Introducing the New Sidebar
Mutations in the Sonar API
Notification Preferences
REST API Wrappers for V1 Compatibility
SMS Notifications
Sonar's Rich Text Editor
System Settings: Overview
The New Sonar API
Troubleshooting the Customer Portal
Upgrading your Ubuntu OS - Customer Portal Upgrades
User Profile: Your Personal User Settings
Ticketing
Advanced Ticketing Features
Canned Replies Examples & Templates
Canned Reply Categories
Exploring Ticket Groups
How to Integrate Inbound Mailboxes with Slack
Inbound Mailboxes Example Build
Ticket Categories Best Practices & Example Build
Ticketing: Overview
Using Parent Tickets
Voice
API Changes for Voice Billing
Best Practices to Remain CPNI Compliant
Billing Voice Services in Sonar
Deploying Voice Services in Sonar
Working With the Sonar Team & Additional Resources
Sonar's Security Practices & Certifications
CyberSecure Canada Certification
Sonar and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Sonar's Security Strategies
Technical Security Overview
Best Practices for Fast Tracking a Support Request
Feedback Portal / Suggest a Feature
Learning with Sonar: Tools and Resources
New Client Training Overview
Sonar Casts Table of Contents
Submitting Bugs vs. Feature Requests
The Sonar Community Forum
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CPUC Fixed Broadband Deployment by Address
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As of March 15th, 2022 the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) released a public communication announcing that state broadband providers no longer are required to report their subscription data as it relates to census block.
This is significant because in 2021, a change in access to a public API lookup resource made it so Sonar no longer had reasonable means of providing CPUC-formatted Subscription Data reports to our clients.
To accommodate for this recent change, Sonar has made a custom report available for all clients who need to report for CPUC - this report has already been loaded into those Sonar instances and will assist with providing the necessary data. This report can be accessed within your Sonar instance by navigating to Reports (from the left-hand panel), and then clicking on the "CA Broadband Data" report tile.
An overview of the data required for CPUC, along with what data is included in Sonar's report, is provided via the table below.
Field Name (CSV Column Header) | Description | Type | Example | Sonar Field for Reference | Included in the Custom Report? |
DBA Name (DBA_Name) | Doing Business As (DBA) Name of your company. In other words, the name of the entity customers could contact to purchase service. | Text | AAA Company |
Inferred via | Yes |
FRN (FRN) | Provider FCC Registration Number – search here (ONLY numbers no other characters) | Text | 0008402202 | Not currently stored in Sonar. | No |
Street Address (Address) | Street Address including House Number, Prefix, Street Name, Street Type and Suffix. No P.O. Boxes! | Text | 123 N Main St |
| Yes |
Unit Number (Unit) | Unit number or letter if applicable. (Optional) | Text | Apt. 1 |
| Yes |
City (City) | City Name | Text | San Francisco |
| Yes |
State (State) | Abbreviated US State Name | Text | CA |
| Yes |
Zip Code 5 (Zip5) | 5 Digit Zip Code | Integer | 94102 |
| Yes (include as-stored in Sonar -- it may need formatting/splitting to “Zip4” column if in excess of 5 digits in length) |
Zip Code 4 (Zip4) | 4 Digit Zip Code (Optional) | Integer | 1234 | No dedicated field for this. | No |
Latitude (Latitude) | Latitude coordinate of the subscriber location. It must have at least 6 decimal places. Must be in the WGS84 or NAD83 geographic coordinate system. (value must be within 32 to 42) | Float | 37.780479 |
| Yes |
Longitude (Longitude) | Longitude coordinate of the subscriber location. It must have at least 6 decimal places. Must be in the WGS84 or NAD83 geographic coordinate system. (value must be within -114 to -124) | Float | 122.421017 |
| Yes |
Technology of Transmission (TechCode) | Acceptable codes for this section are: 10 = Asymmetric xDSL 20 = Symmetric xDSL* 30 = Other Copper Wireline (all copper-wire based technologies other than xDSL; Ethernet over copper and T-1 are examples) 40 = Cable Modem 50 = Optical Carrier / Fiber to the end user (Fiber to the home or business end user, does not include “fiber to the curb”) 70 = Terrestrial Fixed Wireless 90 = Electric Power Line 0 = All Other | Integer | 10 |
| Yes |
Mass market/Consumer Flag (ConsumerF) | Mass market / consumer broadband service is available in this block (1=Yes; 0=No) | Integer | 1 | Not currently stored in Sonar. | No |
Maximum Advertised Downstream Bandwidth, Consumer (MaxAdDn) | For mass market / consumer broadband services, the maximum advertised downstream bandwidth available in the Census Block in Mbps. You can enter up to 3 places after the decimal (e.g., 768 kbps would be entered as 0.768). If the field “Consumer” equals 1, there should be a non-zero value in this field. | Float | 7 |
| Yes (Already converted to Mbps) |
Maximum Advertised Upstream Bandwidth, Consumer (MaxAdUp) | For mass market / consumer broadband services, the maximum advertised upstream bandwidth that is offered with the above maximum advertised downstream bandwidth available in the Census Block in Mbps. You can enter up to 3 places after the decimal (e.g., 768 kbps would be entered as 0.768). If the field “Consumer” equals 1, there should be a non-zero value in this field. | Float | 1.5 |
| Yes (Already converted to Mbps) |
Business/Government Flag (BusinessF) | Business / enterprise / government broadband service is available in this block (1=Yes; 0=No) | Integer | 1 | Not currently stored in Sonar. | No |