The FCC Wireline Bureau released an order Friday clarifying the USF/ICC...
The FCC Wireline Bureau released an order Friday clarifying the USF/ICC Transformation Order and modifying some initial filing deadlines. The order amended section 54.318(d) to clarify that support reductions associated with the Universal Service rate floor will offset frozen CAF…
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Phase I support only to the extent that the frozen CAF Phase I support replaced high-cost loop support and high-cost model support (http://xrl.us/bmq567). The order also clarified that, in implementing the new intercarrier compensation for VoIP regime adopted in the USF Order, when a carrier’s intrastate access rate is lower than its corresponding interstate access rate, the carrier may not include a rate for toll VoIP-PSTN traffic in its intrastate tariff that is higher than its intrastate access rate. The clarification order is helpful because it facilitates to a degree the states’ work evaluating various intrastate tariffs that deal with wholesale carrier access rates for VoIP traffic, a state official said. It’s one of the many clarification orders that the FCC is expected to issue as the agency deals with several pending reconsideration petitions of its USF order, he said. However, the core issues involved in the pending federal appeals of the USF Order aren’t being undermined by the clarification orders, he said.