Emery Telcom requested a waiver of FCC rules that determine...
Emery Telcom requested a waiver of FCC rules that determine the calculation of 2011 rate-of-return carrier base period revenue by limiting the transitional intrastate access service component of that calculation to intrastate revenues received by March 31. Emery wants to…
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include in its base period revenue amounts received for intrastate access service after March 31. Due to a third-party billing system error, a “significant portion” of intrastate access service revenue billed for 2011 was not received until after March 31, the telco said. Emery sent invoices to interexchange carriers for the unbilled traffic as soon as it was discovered, believing it could justify the bills “through the normal process of invoice review and without litigation,” the telco said (http://xrl.us/bnwxra). “It would be contrary to the public interest to require Emery to engage in litigation when it was not necessary."