Goto Section: 54.314 | 54.319 | Table of Contents
FCC 54.318
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 54.318 High-cost support; limitations on high-cost support.
(a) Beginning July 1, 2012, each carrier receiving high-cost support in a
study area under this subpart will receive the full amount of high-cost
support it otherwise would be entitled to receive if its rates for
residential local service plus state regulated fees as defined in paragraph
(e) of this section exceed a local urban rate floor representing the
national average of local urban rates plus state regulated fees under the
schedule specified in paragraph (f) of this section.
(b) Carriers whose rates for residential local service plus state regulated
fees offered for voice service are below the specified local urban rate
floor under the schedule below plus state regulated fees shall have
high-cost support reduced by an amount equal to the extent to which its
rates for residential local service plus state regulated fees are below the
local urban rate floor, multiplied by the number of lines for which it is
receiving support.
(c) This rule will apply only to rate-of-return carriers as defined in § 54.5
and carriers subject to price cap regulation as that term is defined in
§ 61.3 of this chapter.
(d) For purposes of this section, high-cost support is defined as the
support available pursuant to § 54.1310 and frozen high-cost support provided
to price cap carriers to the extent it is based on support previously
provided pursuant to § 54.1310 or former high-cost proxy model support.
(e) State regulated fees. (1) Beginning on July 1, 2012, for purposes of
calculating limitations on high-cost support under this section, state
regulated fees shall be limited to state subscriber line charges, state
universal service fees and mandatory extended area service charges, which
shall be determined as part of a local rate survey, the results of which
shall be published annually.
(2) Federal subscriber line charges shall not be included in calculating
limitations on high-cost support under this section.
(f) Schedule. High-cost support will be limited where the rate for
residential local service plus state regulated fees are below the local
urban rate floor representing the national average of local urban rates plus
state regulated fees under the schedule specified in this paragraph. To the
extent end user rates plus state regulated fees are below local urban rate
floors plus state regulated fees, appropriate reductions in high-cost
support will be made by the Universal Service Administrative Company.
(g) Any reductions in high-cost support under this section will not be
redistributed to other carriers that receive support pursuant to § 54.1310.
(h) If, due to changes in local service rates, a local exchange carrier
makes an updated rate filing pursuant to section 54.313(h)(2), the Universal
Service Administrative Company will update the support reduction applied
pursuant to paragraphs (b) and (f) of this section.
(i) For the purposes of this section and the reporting of rates pursuant to
paragraph 313(h), rates for residential local service provided pursuant to
measured or message rate plans or as part of a bundle of services should be
calculated as follows:
(1) Rates for measured or message service shall be calculated by adding the
basic rate for local service plus the additional charges incurred for
measured service, using the mean number of minutes or message units for all
customers subscribing to that rate plan multiplied by the applicable rate
per minute or message unit. The local service rate includes additional
charges for measured service only to the extent that the average number of
units used by subscribers to that rate plan exceeds the number of units that
are included in the plan. Where measured service plans have multiple rates
for additional units, such as peak and off-peak rates, the calculation
should reflect the average number of units that subscribers to the rate plan
pay at each rate.
(2) For bundled service, the residential local service rate is the local
service rate as tariffed, if applicable, or as itemized on end-user bills.
If a carrier neither tariffs nor itemizes the local voice service rate on
bills for bundled services, the local service rate is the rate of a similar
stand-alone local voice service that it offers to consumers in that study
area.
[ 76 FR 73876 , Nov. 29, 2011, as amended at 77 FR 14302 , Mar. 9, 2012; 77 FR 30914 , May 24, 2012; 79 FR 39190 , July 9, 2014]
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Goto Year: 2014 |
2016
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