The West Virginia Public Service Commission (WVPSC) supports USF waiver...
The West Virginia Public Service Commission (WVPSC) supports USF waiver requests by four small rural telecom providers operating in the state, it told the FCC in comments posted Tuesday (http://bit.ly/YLClPn). Armstrong, Hardy Telecommunications and Spruce Knob Seneca Rocks Telephone had…
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sought a waiver from the method the FCC uses to calculate the rate floor for USF support recipients. The companies asked that the end-user rate benchmark be applied to a weighted average of all their local service plan rates, rather than separately to each rate on a plan-by-plan basis. “Without using a weighted average,” the companies “must increase rates paid by consumers” of certain local service tiers “to avoid losing a portion of their USF support,” the WVPSC said. Elderly and low-income customers will be disproportionately affected if that happens, it said. NTCA and Frontier also supported the request (CD March 4 p7).