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The FCC Wireline Bureau rejected requests by Global Crossing for ...

The FCC Wireline Bureau rejected requests by Global Crossing for review of a February 2007 audit by the Universal Service Administrative Co. Global Crossing was found to have incorrectly reported -- as carrier’s carrier revenue instead of end-user revenue…

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on which the company’s USF contribution assessments are based -- 2004 payments by customers that didn’t contribute to the Universal Service Fund. “The record does not support Global Crossing’s contention that it reasonably expected these customers to directly contribute to the universal service fund as resellers, and therefore we find that USAC’s assessment of contributions on Global Crossing based on revenue from these non-contributing customers was proper,” the bureau said.