FCC Invites Comment on Sandwich Isles NECA Cost Recovery Controversies
The FCC sought to refresh the record on Sandwich Isles Communications' disputed cost recovery from the National Exchange Carrier Association. The Wireline Bureau asked for comment by April 18 and replies by April 28 in a public notice Tuesday in…
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docket 09-133. "At issue in the proceeding was whether certain lease expenses incurred by Sandwich Isles were costs that were 'used and useful' and could be included for recovery in the NECA pool," the PN said. In 2010, Sandwich Isles filed a petition for reconsideration of a Wireline Bureau declaratory ruling in September of that year on its NECA cost recovery, and AT&T filed an application for full commission review. More recently, NECA petitioned the FCC to clarify the bureau's 2010 conclusions. All the requests are pending. The PN detailed costs that Sandwich Isles was allowed and not allowed to include in its NECA pool cost recovery under the bureau's previous ruling.