FCC Releases Illustrative USF Cost Model Results on Rate-of-Return Telcos
The FCC made available illustrative USF broadband cost model results to help parties prepare comments on a recent NPRM on rate-of-return telco high-cost funding (see 1803230025). The commission sought comment on "whether to provide a new model offer based on…
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revised parameters to carriers that would receive less support under the model than under legacy rate-of-return support mechanisms," said a Wireline Bureau public notice Friday in docket 10-90. "It also sought comment on a proposal to exclude from the rate-of-return budget constraint mechanism an amount equal to 80 percent of a carrier’s new model offer." The PN had links to the Alternative Connect America Cost Model, its methodology and reports based on that model.