The Delaware Public Service Commission backed the D.C. Public Service Commission’s...
The Delaware Public Service Commission backed the D.C. Public Service Commission’s request for the FCC to review the way Verizon calculates its access recovery charge, an FCC filing posted Friday said (http://xrl.us/bnq8m5). The FCC permitted this charge under the 2011…
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USF/intercarrier compensation order, and the telco implemented the charge in Delaware in July, the filing said. Verizon’s calculation of the charge “may be causing Delaware’s residential customers to pay more than their fair share of the lost revenues recoverable,” the PSC argued, and it wants a review. The PSC questions whether the charge is calculated correctly throughout the former Bell Atlantic states, where Verizon’s now the telco after combining with that company. Verizon “properly” calculated the rates and “applied those rates consistent with FCC rules,” a spokesman told us. The company tries to keep the charge low and doesn’t charge the maximum rate in many cases, he said. Verizon attacked the D.C. PSC’s request, in a Sept. 14 filing (http://bit.ly/PgQstX).