An allocation of cable landing station costs to...
An allocation of cable landing station costs to multiple cables is “inappropriate” in the U.S. Virgin Islands because the Connect America Cost Model already incorporates cable station cost allocations into its methodology, the Virgin Islands Telephone told the FCC Wireline…
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Bureau in comments posted Friday (http://bit.ly/1fblp3t). The cost model’s “Undersea” spreadsheet assumes a “very small” landing station; other commenters’ recommendations for use by “multiple cables” would require larger cable station facilities and increase costs overall, said the telco, which does business as Innovative Telephone.