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ETI to present at 2011 NASUCA Annual Meeting
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Colin B. Weir, Vice President at ETI, will join panelists including Commissioner James H. Cawley of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and State Chairman on the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service; David C. Bergmann, Counsel to NASUCA, formerly of the Office of Ohio Consumers' Counsel and Chairman of NASUCA's Telecommunications Committee; and others at NASUCA's November Annual meeting in Saint Louis. The group will address the FCC's recent order on Universal Service and Intercarrier Compensation in a panel discussion entitled:
"Broadband or Bust at the FCC: Forward-Looking Telecom Reform, or The Great Telecom Robbery of 2011"
On October 27, the FCC voted out an order intended to tackle the vital and extremely complex issues of high cost Universal Service Reform, broadband deployment and revisions to the federal Intercarrier Compensation structure. The FCC's NPRM focused almost exclusively on the ILEC's "ABC Plan," a regulatory backward proposal to shift over $4 billion of high cost rural telephone service support to broadband, and reducing interstate access charges to near-zero. In its public meeting, the FCC signaled that it would not wholly adopt the ABC Plan, but would order significant revisions to the access charge structure and an additional customer surcharge, relying on "competition" to force carriers to pass through access charge reductions in the form of reduced rates. Key elements of the plan are being pushed into a further NPRM.
ETI previously discussed the ABC plan at length in Views and News, September 2011, and in the paper the Price Cap LECs' "Broadband Connectivity Plan": Protecting Their Past, Hijacking the Nation's Future, also published in September.
For more information, contact Colin B. Weir at cweir@econtech.com
Read the rest of Views and News, October 2011.
A more detailed examination of the large ILECs' "ABC Plan" as submitted in FCC WC Docket No. 10-90 is provided in ETI’s new report, "The Price Cap LECs' ‘Broadband Connectivity Plan’ – Protecting Their Past, Hijacking the Nation's Future".
Available at www.econtech.com/pubs.php
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