Verizon is allocating access recovery charges differently among various states,...
Verizon is allocating access recovery charges differently among various states, and the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission wants an FCC ruling on whether that violates its rules against rate discrimination, the state said in a filing Thursday (http://xrl.us/bnrsga). The PUC said…
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Verizon’s July tariff filing acknowledged it didn’t charge an ARC to residential customers in Virginia, New York or California. That would mean Verizon “must over recover the remainder” from other states “in order to make up the difference,” the PUC said. The PUC said it was “sympathetic” to Verizon’s arguments that imposing ARC rates on an exchange-by-exchange basis is “administratively burdensome.” But the state commission pointed to other alternatives, including implementing a “differentiated ARC rate” for single- or multi-line business customers, or implementing a residential ARC with a “preprogrammed credit” to automatically negate the ARC in exchanges where the total residential bill exceeds the FCC’s $30 limit.