Adding unpredictability to the USF support system through opaque quantile...
Adding unpredictability to the USF support system through opaque quantile regression caps “gravely threatens continued investment in and the sustainability of rural broadband,” the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association told FCC Wireline Bureau officials Friday (http://xrl.us/bmz7wu). Rural LEC members have expressed…
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a “consistent fear” that they might be “the next one” to trigger the caps, and lenders and investors have expressed “deep confusion” at trying to forecast the effects of the caps because of their dynamic nature, NTCA said. NTCA also discussed the substantive underlying problems it saw with the proposed regression analysis approach. “Based upon the discussion in this meeting, however, NTCA understands that the Bureau does intend to receive input from companies and then promptly remedy underlying data shortcomings in the regression analysis models without the need for the filing of individual company waivers,” the ex parte filing said.