Wireline

摘要

The Small Company Coalition supported a petition for the FCC to reconsider the model it uses tondole out high-cost universal service support, in comments posted Tuesday (http://bit.ly/ZrFjxu). “Thenmodel in its current form is not predictable and any use of regression benchmarks should be solely as triggersnfor a more in-depth analysis of a carrier’s costs,” wrote the alliance of rural ILECs and broadbandnproviders. They supported a petition for reconsideration filed by the Western Telecommunications Alliance,nEastern Rural Telecom Association and the National Exchange Carrier Association. Limiting thenuse of the quantile regression analysis benchmarks would reduce the “dramatic uncertainty” the industrynhas seen about future support, the coalition said. “As prominent American economist Frank Knight noted,nthere is a difference between ‘risk’ and ‘uncertainty,’ in that the former is predictable to some degree andncan therefore be measured, and the latter is unpredictable and therefore cannot be measured. No one isnadvocating for the elimination of risk, but rather the ability to predictably measure risk and, therefore, plannaccordingly,” the coalition said.