The Western Telecommunications Alliance (WTA) supported Central Texas Telephone Cooperative’s...
The Western Telecommunications Alliance (WTA) supported Central Texas Telephone Cooperative’s petition for waiver of the FCC Wireline Bureau regression model benchmarks that will limit high cost loop support, WTA said in reply comments Friday (http://xrl.us/bnwo58). WTA, a trade association representing…
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250 small rural telcos, said it agreed with Central Texas and NTCA that the benchmarks “do not take into account the legitimate cost factors that affected the reasonable and prudent capital expenditures of Central Texas.” For example, the model’s capital expenditures benchmark does not reflect the “reasonable and prudent” infrastructure investment decisions of Central Texas, it said. The current regression model doesn’t recognize the trade-offs between capital expenditures and operating expenses, leading to “distortions” that ignore efficient operating expenses, WTA said.