Smart City Telecom seeks a limited waiver of...
Smart City Telecom seeks a limited waiver of FCC rules governing 2011 rate-of-return carrier base period revenue, it told the FCC in a petition Thursday (http://bit.ly/10d9Hd1). The rural Florida ILEC wants to include in its FY 2011 base period revenue…
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amounts for Transitional Intrastate Access Service that should have been billed and collected by March 31, 2012, “but were not due to a billing dispute,” it said. A local exchange carrier had disputed an amount billed, “asserting a portion of the billed minutes were VoIP traffic and therefore not subject to tariffed intrastate access rates for switched access service,” Smart City said. After the FCC’s USF/intercarrier compensation order was released, directing that terminating VoIP minutes be billed at interstate rates and originating VoIP minutes continue to be billed at intrastate rates, Smart City was able to negotiate a settlement with the LEC, it said. A waiver would let Smart City include the revenue in its 2011 figures, which would serve the public interest “in that Smart City would be able to continue to serve its customers consistent with the FCC’s National Broadband Plan goals while having the benefit of the transitional recovery mechanism to the full extent intended by the Commission,” it said.