Despite the FCC’s decision to delay implementing the...
Despite the FCC’s decision to delay implementing the $20.46 rate floor, problems remain, including that rural local exchange carriers (RLECs) in some states are caught in conflicts with state law and procedures, representatives of several rural telcos and the WTA…
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Regulatory Counsel Gerry Duffy told aides to Chairman Tom Wheeler Wednesday, said an ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/1pvGIPl) posted Friday in docket 10-90. A 1995 Colorado statute that has frozen monthly local exchange service rates between $14 and $17.05 “will soon run afoul of the scheduled rate floor increases,” the telcos said. WTA supports the commission’s pending proposal to increase the minimum broadband speed that it seeks to achieve with USF from 4 Mbps to 10 Mbps downstream, the filing said. Sufficient and predictable high-cost support should be available to enable RLEC members to obtain and repay the loans necessary for the required infrastructure upgrades and extensions, the filing said. Involved in the meeting were representatives from Brad 3 Rivers Communications of Fairfield, Montana; Direct Communications of Eagle Mountain, Utah; Idaho Telecom Alliance; MTE Communications of Midvale, Idaho; New Florence Telephone Co. of New Florence, Missouri; and Pine Drive Telephone of Beulah, Colorado, the filing said.