FairPoint Communications seeks a waiver of the requirement that the...
FairPoint Communications seeks a waiver of the requirement that the amounts of frozen high-cost support derived from interstate access support, interstate common line support and local switching support be excluded from the obligations of Section 54.313(c). That section of the…
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commission’s rules require that the FairPoint LECs demonstrate that, starting in 2013, at least one third of their frozen high-cost support was spent on deployment and operation of broadband. “These funds are already ’spoken for,'” FairPoint said. “They help FairPoint recover investment it already has made in its existing facilities. FairPoint cannot spend the same dollars twice. Effectively, the FCC is requiring FairPoint to spend approximately $9 million of frozen high-cost support twice.” Without a waiver, FairPoint would be “unduly burdened” and its customers would be harmed by end-user rate increases, it said (http://bit.ly/WV4shl).