The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association has concerns about the transparency, accuracy...
The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association has concerns about the transparency, accuracy and predictability of regression analysis-based caps on USF support, association officials told FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel Wednesday, an ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bni6ni). NTCA asked the commission to address…
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statistical and data-related issues on the caps, and conduct or release the results of any testing to assess their validity and volatility. “Making the effort to more properly calibrate and test the caps should have minimal, if any, impact on the Commission’s budgetary objectives, given that the Wireline Competition Bureau itself has noted that the caps are anticipated to have at most a $10 million per year net ‘budget’ savings impact” once fully implemented in 2014, NTCA said.