The Texas Public Utility Commission revised reporting requirement...
The Texas Public Utility Commission revised reporting requirements for telecom carriers who receive state high-cost universal service subsidies and adopted a new rule requiring review of the state high-cost fund within 90 days of FCC adoption of new or…
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amended rules for the federal high-cost fund. The PUC (Case 35632) said the reports must show how a carrier applied its subsidies in each study area for each calendar quarter, and they must be broken out by individual operating unit. The PUC said reports that aggregate data across multiple operating units or study areas won’t comply with the order. It also said the reports will be a public record. Previous rules called for annual reports and allowed aggregation of data across multiple study areas and operating units. The new rules take effect immediately. The change resulted from an agreement adopted in April that will reduce the large-carrier portion of the state high-cost fund by 36.5 percent ($144 million) in stages through 2012 through changes such as ending support in deregulated urban and suburban exchanges. The settlement required a review of reporting requirements to make the state fund’s support more visible to the public.