The FCC’s new access recovery charge (ARC) rule unfairly requires District...
The FCC’s new access recovery charge (ARC) rule unfairly requires District of Columbia ratepayers to pay for intrastate and interstate access reform, even though the district has no intrastate access charges, the D.C. Public Service Commission told Commissioner Mignon Clyburn…
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Thursday, an ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bnwxnn). Verizon misinterpreted the ARC rule when it exempted all Virginia, New York and California residential ratepayers form paying the ARC when only a few exchanges had reached the residential rate ceiling, the PSC said. When the telco exempted its Virginia ratepayers from the ARC, Verizon recovered its lost revenue by increasing the ARCs of ratepayers in D.C. and other mid-Atlantic states, the PSC said. “This inequity will only continue, as ARCs may be increased every year.” The D.C. PSC has filed a petition for reconsideration of the ARC rule, and an application for review of Verizon’s ARC tariff filing. The Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission has also asked for an FCC ruling on whether Verizon’s actions violate its rules against rate discrimination (CD Oct 1 p21).