Wireline

摘要

Several telecom associations asked the FCC for a stay of rules requiring their members to “reconcilernand revise study area boundary data” that will ultimately be published in an online map of study arearnboundaries (http://bit.ly/JIaL6y). NTCA, USTelecom, the Independent Telephone and TelecommunicationsrnAlliance, Western Telecommunications Alliance and Eastern Rural Telecom Association asked Wednesdayrnfor a stay or a six-month extension to let the companies gather the information. The Wireline Bureau’srnstudy area boundary order said the data would be used to implement the USF/intercarrier compensationrnbenchmarking rule, which uses quantile regression analysis to generate capital and operating expense limitsrnfor each rate-of-return carrier study area. “The Chairman has indicated that consideration will be given byrnthe Commission to the elimination of the quantile regression analysis ... mechanism in the near future,” thernpetition said. “Absence of the QRA would remove the stated reason for the study area boundary process,rnand particularly for the burdensome and time-consuming efforts that will be involved in reconciling manyrnhundreds of overlaps and voids.” If the boundary data are still required, the groups said, a six-month extensionrnis necessary to ensure accuracy. The groups are awaiting details of the QRA replacement FCC ChairmanrnTom Wheeler told Congress the agency is working on (CD Dec 18 p2).