The Virgin Islands Telephone Corp., doing business as...
The Virgin Islands Telephone Corp., doing business as Innovative, plans to pursue a request for waiver of the National Exchange Carrier Association’s rolling 24-month adjustment period, it said in an ex parte filing Thursday (http://bit.ly/1crhgUR). Without the waiver, the telco’s…
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2011 high-cost loop support (HCLS) would be determined “based on inaccurate data,” it said. Under NECA pooling arrangements, carriers have a 24-month window in which they can make adjustments to their line counts and cost studies. Innovative didn’t discover a problem with its line counts until that 24-month period expired. “The financial impact to Innovative associated with the calculation of the company’s 2011 HCLS is significant. Specifically, unless the Commission waives NECA’s rolling 24-month adjustment period, Innovative will lose $565,860 in HCLS for 2011 -- a loss that would negatively impact Innovative’s operations."