FCC Invites Input on Great Plains Waiver Bid to Use Actual, Not Projected, Access Revenue
The FCC opened a pleading cycle on Great Plains Communications' waiver request to allow it to use actual, rather than projected, interstate switched access revenue to calculate switched access rates and cost recovery as the company exits National Exchange Carrier…
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Association pooling arrangements. Comments are due July 31 and replies Aug. 15, said a Wireline Bureau public notice Friday in docket 01-92. Without the waiver, Great Plains' switched access rates will rise almost 150 percent, "amounting to an increase of $2.8 million annually, and elimination of most" of the company's support from a Connect America Fund-intercarrier compensation mechanism resulting from the 2011 USF-ICC overhaul order, said its June 21 petition. The "inaccurate" projected revenue is "based on years-old data," it said.