The FCC is “actively working” among stakeholders to “tweak” the...
The FCC is “actively working” among stakeholders to “tweak” the quantile regression analysis that has caused so much controversy in the past year, said Wireline Bureau official Nicholas Alexander. The agency introduced the analysis as a way of determining high-cost…
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support benchmarks in November 2011 and kicked it off this past July, which state regulators and telcos have argued create regulatory uncertainty and chill broadband investment. The FCC is aware of the concerns, Alexander told the telecom subcommittee at NARUC’s Baltimore meeting Sunday. At the same meeting Monday, Wireline Bureau Chief Julie Veach said she couldn’t tell the telecom subcommittee whether any changes were “imminent.” But “a lot of very smart people have been spending an awful lot of time” looking at the rule’s effects and possible improvements, she said. Alexander also discussed concerns that study area boundaries were off. The FCC has a process for expediting waiver requests regarding boundaries, and has acted on four of those, he said.