The FCC rebuffed CTIA’s request to extend to similarly situated c...
The FCC rebuffed CTIA’s request to extend to similarly situated contributors relief an earlier true-up waiver order granted three Universal Service Fund contributors. CTIA’s petition for reconsideration spent nearly 4 years pending. In July 2004 the FCC partly exempted…
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AT&T, SBC and Verizon from agency universal service true-up procedures for 2003, on grounds that they “demonstrated good cause to justify the waiver.” The carriers claimed the true-up process “unfairly disadvantages” them by requiring they pay “true-up amounts in excess of their appropriate contributions for 2nd through 4th quarter 2003.” The agency adopted the 2003 true-up process to address the transition from contributions based on historical billed to a basis on projected collected revenue, the FCC said. In August 2004 CTIA sought “me too” relief for wireless carriers. But “CTIA has not provided new information sufficient to warrant extending relief to all similarly-situated companies regardless of their individual circumstances,” the FCC said. A wireless industry source said Tuesday that the FCC is in effect requiring all carriers, no matter how small, make the effort to check whether they overpaid. “I don’t think it’s anything anyone had counted on [winning] or a lot of money,” the source said. - HB