FCC OKs NECA's Proposed Changes to High-Cost Loop USF Formula for RLECs
The FCC approved National Exchange Carrier Association proposals for modifying a USF formula for determining 2019 "average schedule" rate-of-return telco high-cost loop support. The Wireline Bureau said NECA's cost-per-loop calculations appear "accurate and complete," no comments were filed, said an…
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order in Wednesday's Daily Digest and docket 05-337. The current HCLS formula approved Oct. 23, 2017, is expected to provide $6.24 million in payments to 97 average schedule study areas in 2018. NECA’s proposed formula for 2019 projects about $7.01 million in payments to carriers serving 102 average schedule study areas.