The FCC should regulate CenturyTel with price caps, wireline carr...
The FCC should regulate CenturyTel with price caps, wireline carriers generally agreed. In comments last week, USTelecom and the Independent Telephone & Telecommunications Alliance backed a CenturyTel petition to convert its rate-of-return regulated areas. But AT&T said it would…
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back the change only if CenturyTel set its price caps using current rates multiplied by historic base period demand. CenturyTel had said it wanted to use 2008 projected demand. The National Exchange Carrier Association said it’s “prepared to make the necessary modifications to its tariff and rate calculations as appropriate and will coordinate tariff filing submissions with CenturyTel” once the FCC grants the carrier’s petition. NECA believes it could submit a revised tariff filing Dec. 17, with an effective date of Jan. 1.