VERIZON AND CINGULAR BLAST USE OF TNS DATA FOR SAFE HARBOR PROPOSAL

摘要

The FCC wrongly used TNS Telecom抯 bill-harvesting data to calculate a new proposed universal service wireless safe harbor of 37.1%, Verizon and Cingular said. Cingular said that number seems to match one in a 2005 TracFone PowerPoint presentation filed with the FCC. 揘either TracFone nor TNS proffered that study for the purpose of modifying the wireless safe harbor, and -- as TracFone readily admits -- the TNS study is inherently unreliable,?Cingular said: 揟racFone states that the errors are likely to understate interstate usage, but Cingular believes the study抯 assumptions would just as likely overstate it.?Verizon told the FCC: 揑f the Commission decides to make any changes to its USF policies for wireless carriers it should not do so based upon the TNS study.”