Central Texas Telephone Cooperative needs the FCC to act quickly...
Central Texas Telephone Cooperative needs the FCC to act quickly on its petition for waiver and application for review of USF rules, it told Wireline Bureau officials Tuesday (http://xrl.us/bob2nb). Central Texas has high capital expenses because it buries cable in…
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the rocky terrain it serves, but this also means extremely low operating expenses, the telco said. Under the current regression model, which looks at capital expenditures and operating expenditures separately, the co-op’s “substantial cost savings” are not being recognized and the company’s costs are “arbitrarily” being labeled as “imprudent,” the telco said. By collapsing the opex and capex results into “one overall loop cost output,” the commission could take into consideration operating efficiencies, the telco said. Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel has urged the agency to combine the two separate benchmarks into one benchmark “to simplify the regression analysis and provide carriers with flexibility to meet our new limits” (CD Nov 20 p5).