The uncertain amount of paperwork the FCC requires is scaring...
The uncertain amount of paperwork the FCC requires is scaring Iowa telcos. The FCC has yet to firmly say whether it’s reducing the amount of paperwork required for companies that receive high-cost USF support, the Iowa Telecom Association told the…
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Iowa Utilities Board in a Wednesday filing (http://bit.ly/WgAg2z). The federal deadline for filing paperwork is July 1, but “the comment period governing some of the section 54.313 rules and reporting forms [on paperwork reduction] extends until April 26, 2013, thus final approval of the section 53.313 rules and reporting forms may not be known until a date close to when the July 1, 2013, filings are due,” the association said. But there are rules in Iowa that call for the state’s telcos to file “duplicative” filings on May 1 as part of an annual report to that state commission, it added. The telcos ask that the Iowa regulators bump back the state deadline to July 1 to accommodate the uncertainty of the paperwork involved in the federal filing.