Sprint Appeals to FCC Bureau on USAC Audit Findings on USF Contributions
Sprint Spectrum asked the FCC to reverse Universal Service Administrative Co. findings in an audit of the company's 2016 Form 499-A filing used to calculate USF contributions. Sprint challenged USAC's use of a "100 percent telecommunications safe harbor method" to…
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penalize the carrier's "alleged failure to retain documentation" on a revenue allocation. "Despite Sprint’s presentation of evidence supporting the reasonableness of its allocation of bundled revenue, USAC improperly concluded that Sprint’s reported allocation was unreasonable," said the company's request for Wireline Bureau review posted Monday in docket 06-122. "It compounded that error by treating all revenue from the relevant bundle as assessable rather than applying other, more reasonable approaches." Sprint also challenged USAC "retroactively" finding "a carrier’s traffic studies are insufficient to justify the carrier’s reported revenues where the carrier had consistently filed and relied upon such traffic studies without objection from USAC." The FCC and USAC didn't comment.