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Part 32 cost data do not serve any...

Part 32 cost data do not serve any regulatory purpose under price cap regulation, USTelecom told FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn Tuesday, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/Y2yHVI). USTelecom has requested forbearance from several legacy regulations. Part 32 accounting rules were…

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put in place for ratemaking purposes under cost-based regulation and don’t serve any regulatory purpose now, the association of ILECs said. Clyburn asked USTelecom to address concerns raised in an ex parte letter from state members of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, USTelecom reported. In response, USTelecom emphasized that if granted, the relief it seeks “would not undermine the jurisdictional separations process,” it said. Nor would the relief preempt state public service commission authority to obtain accounting information “necessary to carrying out state functions,” it said.