USAC SEEKS FCC GUIDANCE ON AT&T, ALLTEL USF CAPS

摘要

The Universal Service Administrative Co. asked the FCC Wireline Bureau for direction on USF caps for AT&T and Alltel. In a letter, USAC asked whether caps specific to AT&T and Alltel should have applied before the industrywide interim cap on USF high-cost support took effect. USAC believes that it's required to carry out the caps from their effective date until they were "superseded" by the industry limit, "because the CETC industry- wide cap was effective prospectively and did not state that it superseded the company-specific caps retroactively." But "at the written direction of Commission staff," USAC didn't enforce the caps on AT&T and Alltel, it said. "If USAC were to implement the company specific caps for AT&T and Alltel, significant amounts of funding previously disbursed would be recovered from each carrier."