Ascent Media Group notified the FCC of its support for a series o...
Ascent Media Group notified the FCC of its support for a series of petitions in docket 06-122. Filed by Ascent, Millennium Telecom and Comscape, they seek reconsideration of USAC procedures in determining the liability of companies that make mistakes…
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filing Form 499Q. “Ascent received a USAC invoice for $717,000 for a single month” after the company made an administrative error on Form 499Q, it said in a filing. The current “revision policy is inequitable and inconsistent with commercially reasonable practices,” Ascent said: “The rigidity of the current policy creates unreasonable hardship on USF contributors” and “in cases of inadvertent mistakes enforcement of the policy isn’t necessary to administer the USF.” Ascent said it was assessed more than $2.1 million by the USF, “while its total telecommunications revenues for the quarter were only $2 million.”