TRS Fund Administrator Projects $1.26 Billion Net Cash Need, Up From $1.14 Billion
Rolka Loube Associates projected the FCC telecom relay service fund needs $1.26 billion in net cash for FY 2018 starting July 1, up from $1.14 billion in FY 2017. The TRS fund administrator proposed an industry contribution factor of 2.1…
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percent of annual telecom carrier interstate and international end-user revenue, based on the most recent estimate, which was $60.2 billion. Rolka Loube's annual projections were posted Wednesday in docket 10-51. The TRS fund pays for "interstate traditional TRS, interstate captioned telephone service (CTS), interstate speech-to-speech (STS), and both intrastate and interstate video relay service (VRS), Internet Protocol (IP) Relay service, and Internet Protocol Captioned Telephone Service (IP CTS)," wrote the administrator, which "reimburses providers at compensation rates" it computes under FCC rules, after the rates are "approved or modified by the Commission."