The FCC granted rural telecom companies’ requests and changed the...
The FCC granted rural telecom companies’ requests and changed the annual deadline to Dec. 31 from July 31 for filing actual costs and revenue data under the new MAG (Multi-Assn. Group) Plan. The MAG Plan instituted a new universal…
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service support mechanism for rural telecom companies called Interstate Common Line Support (ICLS), with a funding year that runs from July 1 to June 30. Telecom companies are required to project their costs and revenue on March 31 and file actual data July 31. Their universal service support is based on the projected figure, with the final number used to calculate a true-up. In a reconsideration order issued May 8, the Commission agreed to delay the deadline for filing actual costs because small telecom companies said they would have trouble meeting the July 31 date. The FCC said the lag time between projected and actual data would be mitigated by several additional measures taken to improve the accuracy of the projected figures. One of those measures will permit carriers to revise their projected data as late as June 30. FCC Comr. Copps issued a separate statement saying he didn’t object to changing the deadline but he had hoped the agency also would have acted by now on some other outstanding reconsideration petitions.