FCC Seeks Broadband Cost/Revenue Forecasts by Oct. 1, Cites Deployment Figures
Rate-of-return telcos are expected to file by Oct. 1 forecasted cost and revenue data for the first six months of 2017, the FCC Wireline Bureau said in a public notice in docket 10-90 in Tuesday's Daily Digest. The information collection,…
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subject to approval by Office of Management and Budget under the Paperwork Reduction Act, is needed for the Universal Service Administrative Co. to implement the Connect America Fund-Broadband Loop Support (CAF BLS) high-cost mechanism that's replacing Interstate Common Line Support, the PN said. It said carriers are expected to use a revised Form 508 that was proposed to include data on consumer broadband-only loops in addition to the previously collected common line data. The bureau expects USAC to publish by Nov. 1 its budgetary control analysis for the first half of 2017, which will include the amount of forecasted CAF BLS each carrier will receive during that period, enabling carriers to file any needed tariff revisions. Another PN announced the weighted average broadband deployment for all rate-of-return carriers is 74 percent, along with the relevant deployment figures for individual carriers. "These broadband deployment percentages will be used to calculate the capital investment allowance for 2017 and the broadband deployment obligations that rate-of-return carriers that receive support based on legacy mechanisms will be required to fulfill over a five-year period (i.e. 2017 through 2021)," the PN said.