American Cable Association members are mostly small businesses...
American Cable Association members are mostly small businesses that will face “inordinately substantial” burdens responding to the FCC’s special access data request, the association told Wireline Bureau officials May 23, according to an ex parte filing posted Wednesday (http://bit.ly/16pWkNU). To…
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ACA, the “three most burdensome” requests are for fiber maps, location information and revenue information. Many member companies don’t have the mapping information and would have to create it, ACA said. Most ACA members do have automated billing records but don’t have access to much of the requested information, such as revenue from Dedicated Service based on bandwidth speeds or by LEC rate element. ACA wants to work with the commission to find “less burdensome alternatives that would still provide the Commission with what it needs to understand the special access market,” it said.