CTIA met Wed. with top FCC officials to urge preservation of a me...
CTIA met Wed. with top FCC officials to urge preservation of a means by which wireless carriers base Universal Service Fund payments on actual revenue, not a safe harbor percentage, CTIA said in a filing at the Commission. CTIA…
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met with staff deemed closest to Chmn. Martin, including Chief of Staff Dan Gonzalez, legal adviser Michelle Carey and Wireline Bureau chief Tom Navin. Martin has proposed hiking the wireless safe harbor to 37.1% from 28.5% (CD May 1 p1). There’s a fear that such a change could restrict carrier use of traffic studies showing the actual percentage of subscriber calls that are interstate, CTIA told the FCC. “The FCC has long expressed a preference for wireless carriers to contribute to universal service based on their actual revenues,” the CTIA said: “The wireless safe harbor has always been a fall back for wireless carriers that choose not to complete traffic studies for purposes of determining their interstate telecommunications revenues.” Changes shouldn’t delay adoption of a numbers-based contribution system, CTIA said: “Any interim changes to the revenues- based universal service mechanism will be inferior substitutes to more fundamental reforms to the universal service contribution methodology.”