State consumer advocates denounced a Qwest filing on universal se...
State consumer advocates denounced a Qwest filing on universal service rules for nonrural carriers as “seriously incomplete” and filled with errors. In 2005, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the FCC to revamp rules on carriers like…
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Qwest that serve high-cost areas but have too many lines to be considered “rural” by the statutory definition (CD May 12 p3). In an ex parte filing last week, the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates said the FCC should reject Qwest’s proposal for handling the court remand. A July ex parte by the carrier failed to mention much of the USF support it receives in other ways or that its plan would increase the high-cost fund by $1.2 billion, the association said.