The Alaska Rural Coalition and its member Ketchikan Public Utilities...
The Alaska Rural Coalition and its member Ketchikan Public Utilities made “mistaken factual assertions” in recent filings in support of its request for reconsideration of various aspects of the USF/intercarrier compensation fund, General Communication said Wednesday (http://xrl.us/bm4h4h). “ARC has either…
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failed to present accurate facts or has applied an unfounded interpretation of how the urban local rate floor would apply to GCI,” the telco wrote. GCI said neither its tariffed wireline basic local service rate nor the local component of its “No Limits” bundle falls below the local urban rate benchmarks. If a rate floor is applied to a competitive eligible telecom carrier, as ARC suggests, there would be no reason to continue to pay full support to the ILECs because “any other rule would create the anomalous result of paying one competitor more in USF support because they failed to lower their rates to meet the competition,” GCI said. GCI also took issue with assertions that the order provides for “identical support” to CETCs, and that ARC’s proposal for a two-year delay in implementation of RLEC reforms in Alaska would be “budget neutral."