USTelecom petitioned the FCC for review of the Wireline Bureau’s...
USTelecom petitioned the FCC for review of the Wireline Bureau’s order setting limits on high-cost loop support recovery. “Uncertainty and lack of clarity around present and future effects” of the benchmarks, which are based on a quantile regression analysis, “pose…
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risks to the delivery and expansion of rural broadband availability,” the group said (http://xrl.us/bncvkm). USTelecom argued that the benchmarks will not only impact those carriers affected by reductions this year, but will also result in a “chilling effect on investment for rate-of-return ILECs whose support is currently unchanged.” And because companies don’t understand how the regression analysis works, it will be ineffective in providing incentives for prudent investment, USTelecom said. The association of ILECs asked the full commission to postpone implementation of the order until it can resolve concerns about “accuracy, transparency and predictability.” USTelecom is just the latest of several organizations to seek review (CD June 25 p14).