In yet another request for reconsideration of FCC’s MAG order (CD...
In yet another request for reconsideration of FCC’s MAG order (CD Jan 8 p6), group of competitive telcos added different view of what’s wrong with access charge reform plan for rate-of-return telephone companies. Rural Consumer Choice Coalition (RCCC) --…
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AT&T, General Communications Inc. and Western Wireless -- said overall MAG order was “strong achievement” but asked FCC to deal with 4 things: (1) Failure to adopt “explicit, portable and competitively neutral universal service support for high interstate switching and transport costs.” (2) Assign part of transport interconnection charge (TIC) costs to local switching. (3) Not address “information surcharge,” which group said should be recovered through common line elements. (4) Failure to adopt “cost-causative recovery for retail marketing expenses,” which RCCC said might have been due to erroneous reading of FCC’s rules.