FCC Draft Would Reconsider RLEC Surrogate Costs in Broadband Loops, Access Recovery
Under a draft order, the FCC would reconsider a 2016 rural USF overhaul's treatment of rate-of-return telco provision of consumer broadband-only loops (CBOLs), a commission spokesman emailed Monday. "It relates to rules on the surrogate cost method for determining the…
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cost of CBOLs and the ARC [access recovery charge] imputation methodology." NTCA discussed various ways to address "questions raised by its petition for reconsideration and/or clarification regarding imputation of Access Recovery on standalone broadband lines," said a filing by the RLEC group Friday in docket 10-90 covering a Wednesday phone call with an aide to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. NTCA urged the agency "to adopt relief targeted along the lines of what NTCA requested in its petition, and to ensure that whatever relief is adopted will not have a material adverse impact on universal service support under a fixed budget." The recon item was sent to commissioners Thursday, according to the agency's circulation list, which was updated Friday.