FCC Draft Would Act on FairPoint Bid for Intercarrier Compensation Transition Funding
An FCC order on a FairPoint Communications petition was sent to commissioners last week, said the agency's circulation list updated Friday. An agency spokesman said the draft order and declaratory ruling addresses a FairPoint petition from December 2015. FairPoint, bought…
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by Consolidated Communications in 2017, sought to recover annual costs it said were being blocked by rules barring "duplicate recovery" of price-cap USF support and rate-of-return intercarrier compensation. FairPoint said there was no duplicate recovery, and $3.5 million in ICC transition support had been improperly deducted in 2015, with amounts edging down in subsequent years (see 1512110070 and 1703060046).