The FCC should issue guidance about how competitive eligible tele...
The FCC should issue guidance about how competitive eligible telecom carriers may report wireless subscribers who have only post office boxes for billing addresses, the USA Coalition and Smith Bagley said last week. The address information is used by…
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the Universal Service Administrative Co. to figure Universal Service Fund support. In comments last week on a petition by Cricket and Mobi PCS, the USA Coalition said there’s an “ambiguity regarding permissible implementations” of a rule requiring CETCs to report the number of lines they serve in the service area of each rural incumbent local exchange carrier, based on a customer billing address. When a customer has only a post office box, carriers must manually determine the appropriate ILEC service area, using a variety of methods. “So long as the competitive ETC’s implementation of the Rule is reasonable under the circumstances and applied consistently, USAC should accept reports based upon such implementation.”