NTCA supports the petition by South Park Telephone Co. for...
NTCA supports the petition by South Park Telephone Co. for a waiver of the $250-per-line-per-month high cost USF support limit, and of the regression analysis-based caps on high cost loop support (http://xrl.us/bn932b). South Park’s petition sets forth a “compelling” set…
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of circumstances, NTCA said: The telco “offers service to 166 consumers (or 0.28 consumers per square mile) across hundreds of miles of high-cost areas surrounding a town of 900 people that is approximately two hours from Denver and one hour from Colorado Springs.” The telco shows it cannot reasonably anticipate to “make up” lost support through other means, such as new price increases that could result in “unreasonably incomparable rates,” NTCA said. “Strict application” of the rules “would harm consumers in its area and leave the company with little recourse to avoid or minimize that end-user impact.” NTCA has sued the FCC over what it calls its “flawed” regression analysis model, asking the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the rules (CD July 2 p12).