FCC Web Documents citing 54.318

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• http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-12-102A1.doc http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-12-102A1.pdf http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-12-102A1.txt
  • Telephone and Telecommunications Alliance (ITTA), National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA), National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA), Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies (OPASTCO), and Western Telecommunications Alliance (WTA) (collectively, the Petitioners) for clarification of certain aspects of the recently adopted rules in the USF/ICC Transformation Order and FNPRM. Specifically, the Petitioners seek clarification of sections 54.313(h) and 54.318(a), which govern the operation of the local rate floor. Interested parties may file comments on or before February 28, 2012, and reply comments on or before March 14, 2012. All pleadings are to reference WC Docket No. 10-90 and WT Docket No. 10-208. Comments may be filed using the Commission's Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS), or by filing paper copies.
• http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-12-147A1.doc http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-12-147A1.pdf http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-12-147A1.txt
  • specify how the offsets would apply to frozen high-cost support provided pursuant to CAF Phase I, which commingles intrastate and interstate support. For the purposes of calculating certain interstate rates, frozen CAF Phase I support remains attributable to the interstate jurisdiction to the extent that the frozen CAF Phase I support replaced Interstate Access Support. Moreover, the codified rule, section 54.318(d), makes clear that this rate reduction only applies to HCLS and HCMS. In this Order, the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) amends section 54.318(d) to clarify that support reductions associated with the rate floor will offset frozen CAF Phase I support only to the extent that the recipient's frozen CAF Phase I support replaced HCLS and HCMS. The offset does not
• http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-12-298A1.doc http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-12-298A1.pdf http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-12-298A1.txt
  • reconsideration filed by the United States Telecom Association (US Telecom), which, among other things, asked the Commission to clarify that reductions in legacy support resulting from a failure to meet the urban rate floor will, at most, extend only to high-cost loop support and high-cost model support. In the USF/ICC Clarification Order, the Bureaus addressed this issue by amending section 54.318(d) to clarify that support reductions associated with the rate floor will offset frozen CAF Phase I support only to the extent that the recipient's frozen CAF Phase I support replaced HCLS and HCMS. The Bureaus further stated that the offset does not apply to frozen CAF Phase I support to the extent that it replaced IAS and ICLS. Because the
• http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-11-161A1.doc http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-11-161A1.pdf http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-11-161A1.txt
  • of this section in full. Carriers subject to this paragraph must comply with all other requirements set forth in the remaining paragraphs of this section. (h) Additional voice rate data. All incumbent local exchange carrier recipients of high-cost support must report all of their flat rates for residential local service, as well as state fees as defined pursuant to § 54.318(e) of this subpart. Carriers must also report all rates that are below the local urban rate floor as defined in § 54.318 of this subpart, and the number of lines for each rate specified. Carriers shall report lines and rates in effect as of January 1. (i) All reports pursuant to this section shall be filed with the Office of
• http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-12-52A1.doc http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-12-52A1.pdf http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-12-52A1.txt
  • on all carriers receiving high-cost support is necessary to avoid creating a ``significant competitive disadvantage for anyone competing against'' a competitive ETC that is not subject to the rate floor. We take this opportunity to clarify that the rate floor does not apply to competitive ETCs; it applies only to incumbent carriers. To eliminate any potential confusion, we modify section 54.318(c) of our rules accordingly. Further, we decline to extend the rate floor to competitive ETCs. Imposing a rate floor on competitive ETCs would be administratively complicated and time-consuming. Most competitive ETCs are mobile wireless carriers, not landline carriers, and because mobile wireless service is sold in different ways, it is not at all obvious how a rate floor could be