FCC Circulates Draft on Investigation Into Aureon Tariff, 2 Enforcement Drafts
An FCC draft item would address an Iowa Network Access Division (Aureon) tariff, said the circulation list, updated Friday. The Wireline Bureau in November launched an investigation into Aureon's tariff transmittal No. 38, including a look at an increase in…
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Aureon's central office switching equipment investment (see 1811090053). The investigation "is applying ILEC-only accounting rules to Aureon even though" an FCC Nov. 8, 2017, decision "classified Aureon as a CLEC," emailed Fletcher Heald attorney James Troup, who represents Aureon. "If Aureon was a horse, what the FCC has done is similar to regulating a horse under rules for horses as well as rules for cars on the grounds that both horses and cars are modes of transportation. Consequently, Aureon is the only company in the entire country that is regulated as both an ILEC and a CLEC." The FCC didn't comment Monday. Also on the updated circulation list are two Enforcement Bureau orders (one in conjunction with the Wireless Bureau) and a draft broadband deployment report, announced by Chairman Ajit Pai last week and sparking mixed reactions (see 1902200057). Off the list was a draft order to amend Part 1 of the rules, including on a lockbox used to collect fees for the Enforcement Bureau (see 1812210072). The FCC circulated a draft order Feb. 13 to resolve an investigation on tariff revisions filed by South Dakota Network, which was also opened in November (see 1811290061).