FCC Bureau Sets Filing Procedures for ILEC Access Charge Tariffs, Review Plans
FCC staff set procedures for filing annual access charge tariffs and tariff review plans (TRPs) for price-cap incumbent local exchange carriers and rate-of-return ILECs. A Wireline Bureau order Thursday in docket 17-65 "sets an effective date of July 1, 2017,…
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for the July 2017 annual access charge tariff filings made on 15 days’ notice; sets a modified effective date of July 3, 2017, for the July 2017 annual access charge tariff filings made on 7 days’ notice; establishes the dates for filing petitions to suspend or reject an [ILEC] tariff filing and replies to such petitions; and addresses service of the petitions and replies." The order also set May 17 as the date for price-cap ILECs to file short-form TRPs. The FCC's 2011 USF-intercarrier compensation overhaul order requires ILECs "to adjust, over a period of years, many of their switched access charges effective on July 1 of each of those years," the bureau said.