South Carolina cable and competitive carrier interests asked the ...
South Carolina cable and competitive carrier interests asked the state Supreme Court to reconsider a June decision upholding Public Service Commission rulings that interstate revenues can be assessed to support the state universal service fund. The South Carolina Cable…
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TV Association and Southeastern Competitive Carriers Association had claimed that the state fund discriminated against competitive providers and impermissibly affected federal universal service support mechanisms by assessing interstate revenues. The court (Opinion 26354) rejected both claims. The groups sought reconsideration of the issue of state encroachment into the federal domain. They said the court failed to consider decisions in the winter by a district judge and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Texas regulators had violated federal law by assessing interstate revenues to support the intrastate fund. The plaintiffs said the rulings were crystal clear in holding that the federal fund is to be supported by interstate revenue, whereas state funds are to be supported only from intrastate revenue.