The FCC should extend the separations freeze while opening a rule...
The FCC should extend the separations freeze while opening a rulemaking to consider reforming it, USTelecom said in a white paper filed with the FCC Dec. 12. The June 30 expiration date is causing “significant uncertainty in the industry…
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and forcing carriers to consider making substantial investments” to comply with jurisdictional separations requirements, the white paper said. The FCC also should say “price cap carriers do not have to conduct resource-intensive investment studies” during the freeze, USTelecom said. The separations process differentiates between interstate and intrastate telephone company costs. The FCC froze the current formula while it considered reforming the system to reflect changes in technology.