There’s a “tension” between language in the USF/intercarrier...
There’s a “tension” between language in the USF/intercarrier compensation order and the FCC’s Part 69 rules, representatives from several ILECs told Wireline Bureau officials Monday, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/10v15AK). The rules “on one hand, appear to direct companies…
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to allocate certain legacy high-cost support (IAS, ICLS and LSS) to the calculation of interstate access charges but, on the other hand, also appear to direct companies to spend increasingly larger amounts of this same legacy high-cost support on building and operating broadband networks in certain areas,” said the USTelecom filing. That tension could have “potential fiscal effects” on support, access and subscriber charges, said the association and members AT&T, CenturyLink, Verizon and Windstream.