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General Communication Inc. supports the National Exchange Carrier Association’s petition...

General Communication Inc. supports the National Exchange Carrier Association’s petition for reconsideration with respect to the use, for NECA pool participants, of the actual 2011 interstate revenue requirement rather than “its projected interstate switched access revenue requirement associated with the…

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NECA 2011 annual interstate switched access tariff filing,” according to an ex parte letter (http://xrl.us/bmxege). GCI counsel met with FCC Wireline Bureau officials Friday to discuss the petition. “NECA projections are not accurate at the study area level, even when they are accurate at the pool level,” the filing said. “At a minimum, the Commission should, for NECA pool participants, true up to their 2011 actual revenue requirements with the NECA poolwide revenue requirement projection functioning as an overall cap.” GCI also said that, with respect to Alaska carriers in the Alaska Exchange Carrier Association pool, it would be “more appropriate” to use its actual intrastate access revenue requirement rather than 2011 revenue from Transitional Intrastate Access Service.