The FCC seeks comment on a proposed survey of urban...
The FCC seeks comment on a proposed survey of urban rates for fixed voice and fixed broadband residential services, a Wireline Bureau public notice said (http://xrl.us/bniah5). The bureau also seeks comment about how to determine the local voice rate floor…
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and the reasonable comparability benchmarks for fixed voice and fixed broadband services using data from the urban rate survey. The annual rate survey, established in the USF/intercarrier compensation order, will be used to establish a rate floor carriers receiving high-cost loop support or high-cost model support must meet in order to receive full support amounts, starting in 2014. The survey will also be used to develop reasonable comparability benchmarks for voice and broadband rates that carriers must annually certify the rates do not exceed, starting next July. Comments in docket 10-90 will be due 30 days after publication in the Federal Register.