The FCC should reconsider its elimination of the Safety Net Additive...
The FCC should reconsider its elimination of the Safety Net Additive support mechanism, part of the reforms adopted in the USF/intercarrier compensation order, OPASTCO, NTCA and the Western Telecommunications Alliance told Wireline Bureau officials and aides to commissioners Ajit Pai…
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and Jessica Rosenworcel Tuesday, an ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bnzt7h). By denying SNA support to carriers that had a qualifying 2010 or 2011 increase in their total per-line telecom plant in service cost -- prior to adoption of the order -- the commission “blindsided” the telcos with its “retroactive elimination of this critical source of cost recovery.” It is “not reasonable to expect carriers to refrain from making investments that qualify for support under current rules because those rules might change in some unforeseeable way in the future,” the groups said. “This is the antithesis of ‘predictable’ support” required in the Communications Act, they said.