AT&T supported comments by both CTIA and USTelecom on proposed changes...
AT&T supported comments by both CTIA and USTelecom on proposed changes to the FCC’s regulatory fees regime (CD June 6 p8), in reply comments filed at the commission. USTelecom is correct that an overhaul is overdue because of sweeping changes…
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in the nature of the industries the agency regulates since the current schedule was established 17 years ago, AT&T said. But any changes must comport to Section 9 of the Communications Act, which covers the assessment of such fees, AT&T said. “As CTIA and others have explained, the Commission’s proposal requiring CMRS providers to double-pay regulatory fees -- once on a per-subscriber basis and again on the basis of their interstate telecommunications services revenues -- would contravene section 9,” the carrier said. If changes the FCC proposes in a public notice are adopted, wireless carriers would have to pay combined fees of $52 million on a per subscriber basis, plus an additional $108 million based on their interstate telecommunications service revenue, AT&T said: “This unprecedented double-assessment would more than triple their annual regulatory fee burdens."