FCC Investigation of South Dakota Network Tariff Revisions Targets Benchmark Rate
The FCC will probe the ILEC benchmark rate used by South Dakota Network in tariff revisions to its interstate switched access service filed Sept. 17. "We designate for investigation whether SDN is using the correct competing incumbent LEC(s) in calculating…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
its benchmark rate, and whether SDN’s calculated benchmark rate is based on the rate(s) for the appropriate service(s) of the competing incumbent LEC(s)," said a Wireline Bureau order Thursday in docket 18-100. "In the Aureon Tariff Investigation Order, the Commission found that CenturyLink was the competing incumbent LEC Aureon should benchmark to, and not the [National Exchange Cooperative Association]. In its Direct Case, SDN must justify its use of both CenturyLink and NECA as the carriers to which it should benchmark."