Goto Section: 54.806 | 54.808 | Table of Contents
FCC 54.807
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 54.807 Interstate access universal service support.
(a) Each Eligible Telecommunications Carrier (ETC) that provides supported
service within the study area of a price cap local exchange carrier shall
receive Interstate Access Universal Service Support for each line that it
serves within that study area.
(b) In any study area within which the price cap local exchange carrier has
not established state approved geographically deaveraged rates for UNE
loops, the Administrator shall calculate the Interstate Access Universal
Service Support Per Line by dividing Study Area Access Universal Service
Support by twelve times all eligible telecommunications carriers' base
period lines in that study area adjusted for growth during the relevant
support period based on the average nationwide annual growth in eligible
lines during the three previous years. For the purpose of calculating
growth, the Administrator shall use a simple average of annual growth rates
for total switched access lines for the three most recent years as reported
in the Common Carrier Bureau Report, Statistics of Communications Common
Carriers, Table 6.10—Selected Operating Statistics. Interested parties may
obtain this report from the U.S. Government Printing Office or by
downloading it from the Federal Communication Commission's website
http://www.fcc.gov/ccb/stats.
(c) In any study area within which the price cap local exchange carrier has
established state approved geographically deaveraged rates for UNE loops,
the Administrator shall calculate the Interstate Access Universal Service
Support Per Line for each customer class and zone using all eligible
telecommunications carriers' base period lines by customer class and zone
adjusted for growth during the relevant support period based on the average
nationwide annual growth in eligible lines during the three previous years.
For the purpose of calculating growth, the Administrator shall use a simple
average of annual growth rates for total switched access lines for the three
most recent years as reported in the Wireline Competition Bureau Report,
Statistics of Communications Common Carriers, Table 6.10—Selected Operating
Statistics. Support shall be allocated to lines in the highest cost UNE zone
first, and will “cascade” to lines in lower cost UNE zones to the extent
that sufficient funding is available. Beginning with the zone with the
highest Zone Average Revenue Per Line, support will be applied in the
following order of priority:
(1) To all lines in the highest zone, to eliminate the amount per line by
which Zone Average Revenue Per Line exceeds the higher of $9.20 or the
Average Revenue Per Line in the next highest zone;
(2) If the Zone Average Revenue Per Line in the next highest zone is greater
than $9.20, then to all lines in both zones to eliminate the amount per line
by which Zone Average Revenue per Line exceeds $9.20 or the Zone Average
Revenue Per Line in the third highest zone. This application of support will
continue to additional zones in the same fashion until the amount per line
by which Zone Average Revenue Per Line exceeds $9.20 has been eliminated in
all zones, or until the available support has been exhausted;
(3) To all residential and single-line business lines in the highest zone,
to eliminate the remaining amount per line that Zone Average Revenue Per
Line for these lines exceeds the higher of $7.00 or Zone Average Revenue Per
Line in the next highest zone;
(4) If the Zone Average Revenue per Line in the next highest zone is greater
than $7.00, then to all residential and single-line business lines in both
zones to eliminate the remaining amount per line by which Zone Average
Revenue Per Line exceeds $7.00. This application of support will continue to
additional zones in the same fashion until the difference between Zone
Average Revenue Per Line and $7.00 has been eliminated in all zones, or
until the available support has been exhausted.
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of § 54.307(a)(2), the per-line support
amount determined within each zone by applicable customer class under
paragraph (b) or (c) of this section is portable among all eligible
telecommunications carriers providing service within that zone.
[ 65 FR 38690 , June 21, 2000; 65 FR 57740 , Sept. 26, 2000, as amended at 67 FR 13228 , Mar. 21, 2002]
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Goto Section: 54.806 | 54.808
Goto Year: 2014 |
2016
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