Groups representing small wireline carriers asked the FCC to clarify...
Groups representing small wireline carriers asked the FCC to clarify another part of its Nov. 18 Universal Service Fund order, on the “local urban rate floor” carriers must meet to qualify for high-cost support. “It is not clear ... whether…
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the rules permit carriers sufficient time to implement rate changes that would enable the carriers’ eligibility for high-cost loop support,” the groups said in a petition filed at the FCC (http://xrl.us/bmpow7). “The rules could be read to imply that new governing rates were to have been effective January 1, 2012 -- only 2 days after the Order became effective -- and that any steps taken by carriers thereafter to increase rates to maintain unreduced levels of HCLS [High Cost Loop Support] for the twelve months beginning July 1, 2012 are already moot.” The petition was signed by the Independent Telephone and Telecommunications Alliance, National Exchange Carrier Association, NTCA, OPASTCO and Western Telecommunications Alliance.