Although the FCC’s recent order tweaking the High-Cost Loop Support...
Although the FCC’s recent order tweaking the High-Cost Loop Support regression analysis was “a productive step forward,” the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association still has concerns, it told Wireline Bureau Deputy Chief Carol Mattey Friday, according to an ex parte notice…
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(http://xrl.us/bm7ynq). The caps will not encourage “alleged ‘efficiency'” because “it remains difficult, if not impossible, with the information currently available to discern the reasons that any given carrier may or may not be affected by the caps,” NTCA said. More transparency alone might not be effective because the caps will be adjusted annually “based upon reasons that are both within and beyond any given carrier’s control,” the group said. NTCA also raised concerns about the waiver standard outlined in the November 2011 order, which it said does not satisfy the standards required of universal service because it conditions the availability of waivers upon consumer loss of voice service. NTCA also met with a legal adviser to Chairman Julius Genachowski on Monday to urge the commission to “resolve the many questions still swirling” (http://xrl.us/bm7227).