FCC Cites Resources to Help RLEC Decisions on Capital Investment, Model-Based CAF
The FCC said two resources were issued to help rural rate-of-return telcos determine their capital investment allowances (CIA) for new broadband-oriented USF support mechanisms. Universal Service Administrative Co. "published illustrative results showing each carrier’s allowance had CIA ... been applied…
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to each carrier’s 2015 investment," said a Wireline Bureau public notice in docket 10-90 and Monday's Daily Digest. It said USAC also published "a worksheet that allows a carrier to calculate the CIA based on its own inputs. Using this worksheet, a carrier may replicate the illustrative 2015 results, calculate its 2017 allowance, or test alternate investment plans." To help rural telcos decide whether to opt into model-based Connect America Fund subsidy support, the bureau in another public notice said it released a spreadsheet and other information (with links included) about unsubsidized competitors and broadband deployment in incumbent study areas.