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The quantile regression model that limits cost recovery for infrastructure...

The quantile regression model that limits cost recovery for infrastructure build out “fails to fix the underlying problems with the existing flawed high cost loop funding mechanism and in fact introduces even more uncertainty into the federal recovery mechanism,” Home…

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Telecom told FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai and staff, according to an ex parte filing (http://xrl.us/bncvey). The regression model is “unduly complex” and based on “erroneous data,” and its implications are “not even fully understood by FCC staff,” Home wrote. Home asked that the FCC suspend the model until it can be “fully vetted,” and asked that the waiver process be “less onerous” and waiver fees “lowered or eliminated."