ITTA Presses FCC for Multiple RLEC Chances to Elect BDS Incentive Regulation; AT&T Disagrees
ITTA urged the FCC to give eligible rural telcos more than one chance to opt out of rate-of-return business data service regulation, apparently modifying its previous calls for an annual opportunity. AT&T said it's "reasonable" for RLECs to have a…
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single opportunity as contemplated in a draft order scheduled for a vote at Tuesday's FCC meeting (see 1810110018). ITTA also discussed the rate of return that would apply to the BDS offerings of carriers not electing incentive-based regulation, said its filing on calls its officials had with aides to Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Mike O'Rielly, posted Friday in docket 17-144. TDS Telecom urged an annual RLEC opportunity to opt out of RoR BDS regulation, in calls and voicemails to aides to all four commissioner aides. Speaking with a Wireline Bureau staffer, AT&T said the FCC "is poised to resolve the regulatory status of eligible carriers’ low speed TDM transport, and the issue does not mandate the opportunity for annual opt-in in perpetuity, particularly given the risks of gaming the Commission has identified."