Executive from price cap carriers Frontier, Windstream and CenturyLink sought...
Executive from price cap carriers Frontier, Windstream and CenturyLink sought clarity on the new Universal Service Fund rules (CD Oct 28 p1) with FCC staff last week, according to an ex parte notice we obtained Tuesday. “Specifically, we sought to…
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understand the (1) calculation of and eligible uses for Phase I [Connect America Fund] incremental support … (2) calculation … and application of the adjustment in frozen Phase I CAF support where end-user rates are below a benchmark in price-cap study areas … (3) extent to which the new Eligible Telecommunications Carrier service obligations are linked to the receipt of explicit” USF support, “(4) application of the new default reciprocal compensation rules for traffic exchanged with Commercial Mobile Radio Service providers … and (5) relationship of collected access revenue to the calculation of eligible recovery through the new Access Recovery Charge and Intercarrier Compensation Charge,” the executive said, according to the ex parte notice. Most of the new rules take effect Dec. 29, and it’s doubtful the price cap companies will challenge the order, one telecom official told us Tuesday.