FCC would implement embedded cost method of determining universal...
FCC would implement embedded cost method of determining universal service support by July 1 if Sens. Dorgan (D-N.D.), Daschle (D-S.D.), Burns (R-Mon.) and 19 other lawmakers get their way. In letter April 13 to FCC Chmn. Powell, they said…
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that despite Rural Task Force recommendation that Commission adopt embedded cost method, which they said was critical to rural high- cost reform, “Commission has relegated rural needs to the back burner.” Method would “allow carriers to recover their actual costs and thereby more accurately assess their individual need level for support,” they told Powell. Senators also urged FCC to lift caps on how much high-cost support govt. could provide to individual carriers. Burns is sponsor of bill that would remove such caps and related limitations and Rep. Deal (R-Ga.) has introduced companion legislation in House (CD March 26 p3).