FCC Starts Urban Rate Survey of Fixed Services for USF 'Reasonable Comparability''
The FCC is launching its urban rate survey of fixed voice and broadband services with queries to selected providers, said a Wireline Bureau public notice Thursday in docket 10-90. The collected rate information will be used to set "reasonable comparability…
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benchmarks" (for rural, high-cost USF subsidy mechanisms) in 2017, among other things, the PN said. "Notifications that a provider is required to complete a survey will be sent via email to each selected provider’s FCC Form 477 contact person and certifying official on or around September 22." Survey responses are due Oct. 25.