Three rural associations asked the FCC to reconsider...
Three rural associations asked the FCC to reconsider its decision upholding the Wireline Bureau’s quantile regression analysis methodology for limiting high-cost loop support (http://bit.ly/11lX5ki). “Despite some positive revisions in the Sixth Order, the benchmarking approach in its current form continues…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
to make both the rules governing universal service support and support amounts fundamentally unpredictable,” wrote NECA, the Western Telecommunications Alliance and the Eastern Rural Telecom Association in their petition for reconsideration. They also asked the commission to reconsider its conclusion that the bureau was reasonable when it based its benchmarks on the analysis of “similarly situated companies.” The bureau’s approach does not actually apply similar benchmarks to similar companies, the rural groups wrote. “This defect requires reconsideration."