Alaska eligible telecom carriers should receive a two-year delay in...
Alaska eligible telecom carriers should receive a two-year delay in FCC Connect America Fund implementation, members of the Alaska Rural Coalition told aides to Commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Robert McDowell Monday (http://xrl.us/bm377g). The commission’s justification for providing a two-year transition…
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delay for competitive ETCs serving remote parts of the state is “equally applicable to all ETCs that serve remote Alaska locations,” ARC said. It requested a delay in the limitation of corporate operations expenses, the cap of corporate operations on interstate common line support, the application of a regression analysis to cap loop costs and the elimination of the safety net additive. The cost of terrestrial middle-mile operations must factor into the commission’s broadband benchmarks, because current “exorbitant rates clearly demonstrate the problem of securing affordable middle mile,” the ARC said.