FCC Posts Rate Floors for Incumbent ETCs, Fixed 'Reasonable Comparability' Levels
The FCC announced a 2017 rate floor for incumbent eligible telecom carriers and "reasonable comparability" benchmarks for fixed voice and broadband services, based on an urban rate survey. For voice services, the monthly rate floor is $22.49 and the reasonable…
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comparability benchmark is $49.51, said a Wireline Bureau public notice Tuesday in docket 10-90. It said ILEC high-cost ETCs must by July 1 report in their annual Form 481 submissions the number of residential voice lines for which the sum of local rate and state fees is below $22.49; to the extent the combined fees are less than $20, the carrier's high-cost support will be reduced dollar for dollar. All ETCs providing fixed service must certify in Form 481 that the pricing of their basic residential voice services isn't above $49.51, it said. The broadband reasonable comparability benchmarks vary by data speeds and minimum usage allowances.