FCC efforts to establish uniform data specifications for collecting study...
FCC efforts to establish uniform data specifications for collecting study area boundary information “appear reasonable,” the National Exchange Carrier Association, Independent Telephone and Telecommunications Alliance, NTCA, OPASTCO, USTelecom, Eastern Rural Telecom Association and the Western Telecom Alliance said. They were…
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responding to a public notice seeking comment on proposed data specifications for collecting study area boundaries (http://xrl.us/bnfbvj). The associations are generally against the imposition of benchmark-based limitations on high-cost loop support and proposals to eliminate support in areas served by unsubsidized carriers, but they support the use of more accurate data to accomplish the agency’s goals, they said. Companies might not have enough resources to submit study area shapefiles, so the commission should allow “substantial time” for submission of initial maps, they said. In a separate filing Monday, Nebraska Rural Independent Companies indicated its support of the agency’s data specifications for collecting study area boundaries (http://xrl.us/bnfbd3). The technical specifications in the notice are “adequate,” and reliance on state commissions is “appropriate and useful,” the filing said.