FCC Looks Poised to Adopt BDS Draft; RLEC Opt-in Opportunity Specifics in Play
The FCC appears likely to adopt a business data service item without major changes, officials told us Monday. A combined draft order and two Further NPRMs are scheduled for a vote at the commissioners' meeting Tuesday. "It's looking pretty quiet,"…
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said a commission official. "If there are changes, they're going to be marginal." Still in play is whether rate-of-return incumbent telcos receiving fixed USF support will receive more than one opportunity to elect BDS incentive regulation, the official said. The commission may provide an additional opportunity for carriers to opt into a price-cap regime, said another official. ITTA and TDS Telecom sought an annual opportunity to make the election, or at least more the one transition opportunity the draft contemplates; AT&T opposed a change (see 1810190033).