AT&T executives met with advisers to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski...
AT&T executives met with advisers to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and commissioners Ajit Pai, Mignon Clyburn and Jessica Rosenworcel last week to discuss two universal service-related draft orders, its ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bnkkzj). AT&T stated its understanding that the…
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commission is considering a draft order upholding a 2004 Wireline Bureau order that established an asymmetrical deadline for filing revisions to a 499-A form. The commission should adopt the Internal Revenue Service’s three year deadline for all 499-A revisions, AT&T said. Regarding the pending draft order acting on a 2010 petition for clarification filed by AT&T and several other wholesale providers of interstate telecom services, the commission should pursue the reseller directly for amounts owed to the USF, AT&T said. AT&T is also concerned about “both the scope and the substance” of the guidance offered in the tribal engagement public notice released in July, the execs said. “The alleged ‘guidance’ provided little real world guidance and the concrete examples that were included in the notice are not realistic,” the filing said.