The continuation of the FCC’s eight-year-old proceeding to revamp...
The continuation of the FCC’s eight-year-old proceeding to revamp intercarrier compensation has resulted in “a substantial, growing and unnecessary layer of regulatory uncertainty and unpredictability overhanging important revenue flows, interfering with broadband planning and investment,” USTelecom said. In a…
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letter Wednesday to Chairman Julius Genachowski, the association asked that the commission “publish a draft reform proposal for comment this fall with the goal of putting a comprehensive reform plan in place by the end of this year.” Nearly everyone agrees that the current system is broken, and there’s “broad consensus on at least the first steps to fixing this system,” it said. Most agree the FCC should move intrastate access rates to interstate rates, provide a revenue recovery mechanism and begin “modernizing” the Universal Service Fund, USTelecom said. “The Commission should draw on this common ground to create a managed transition to a modernized system of unified, cost-based rates and explicit support targeted to where it is most needed.”