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  • limitation on the amount of safety valve support available to carriers. See 47 C.F.R. § 54.305(e). See supra n.6. See Letter from David Cosson, Counsel for Blue Valley, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, CC Docket No. 96-45 (filed May 26, 2005). Id. As an interstate price cap LEC, United is eligible for IAS. See 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.800, et seq. See Petition at Appendix A. See Petition at 6-7. See 47 C.F.R. § 69.3(a). 47 C.F.R. § 69.3(e)(11). See Amendment of Part 69 of the Commission's Rules Relating to the Common Line Pool Status of Local Exchange Carriers Involved in Mergers or Acquisitions, CC Docket No. 89-2, Report and Order, 5 FCC Rcd 231, 248 (1989). See 47
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  • valve support available to carriers. See 47 C.F.R. § 54.305(e). See supra note 6. See Letter from David Cosson, Kraskin, Moorman & Cosson, LLC (counsel for Madison River), to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, CC Docket No. 96-45 (filed May 25, 2005). Id. As an interstate price cap LEC, BellSouth is eligible for IAS. See 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.800, et seq. See Letter from James Y. Kerr II, Commissioner, North Carolina Utilities Commission, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, CC Docket No. 96-45 (filed April 4, 2005). See Petition at 7. See 47 C.F.R. § 69.3(a). 47 C.F.R. § 69.3(e)(11). See Amendment of Part 69 of the Commission's Rules Relating to the Common Line Pool Status of
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  • Id. See New Mexico Order (attaching Amended Recommended Decision of the Hearing Examiner at 51). See Petition at 11. See Letter from Martin L. Stern, Preston, Gates, Ellis & Rouvelas, Meeds LLP, to Marlene Dortch, FCC, CC Docket No. 96-45 (filed May 23, 2006). Id. As an interstate price cap LEC, Qwest is eligible for IAS. See 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.800, et seq. We also note that the costs of deployment should be minimized by Sacred Wind's use of a fixed wireless local loop solution. According to USAC's most recent estimates, total high-cost support for 2006 is projected to be $4,147,059,854. See USAC Quarterly Administrative Filing 2006, Third Quarter (3Q) Appendix, HC02, filed May 2, 2006, at http://www.universalservice.org/overview/filings. See Petition at
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  • support to price-cap carriers as implicit universal service subsidies are removed from their interstate-access rates. Need: In implementing the statutory requirements, these rules ensure that the universal service interstate-access support mechanism is specific, predictable and sufficient as it moves from implicit to explicit subsidies. Legal Basis: 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 154(j), 201-209, 218-222, 254 and 403. Section Numbers and Titles: 54.800 Terms and definitions. 54.801 General. 54.802 Obligations of local exchange carriers and the Administrator. 54.803 Universal service zones. 54.804 Preliminary minimum access universal service support for a study area calculated by the Administrator. 54.805 Zone and study area above benchmark revenues calculated by the Administrator. 54.806 Calculation by the Administrator of interstate access universal service support for areas served by
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  • cost'' with ``high-cost'' and ``low cost'' with ``low-cost'' Amend Appendix B, § 54.705(c)(1) by redesignating subsections (A) through (E) as (i) through (v) Amend Appendix B, § 54.705(c)(2) by redesignating subsections (A) through (H) as (i) through (viii) Amend Appendix B, § 54.715(c), third sentence, by replacing ``high cost'' with ``high-cost'' and ``low cost'' with ``low-cost'' Amend Appendix B, § 54.800(a) by inserting ``of this chapter,'' between ``§ 61.3(d)'' and ``except'' and by inserting ``of this chapter that are'' between ``§ 61.45(i)(4)'' and ``not yet effective.'' Amend Appendix B, § 54.800(c); § 54.802(a), first and second sentences; §§ 54.804(a) and (b); §§ 54.807(c)(3) and (c)(4); § 61.48(m)(2)(vii), first sentence; § 69.152(d)(1); § 69.152(f); § 69.152(i); and § 69.152(q)(3) by replacing ``single
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  • Id. In the MAG Order, the Commission noted that the difficulty of determining the amount of implicit support contained in interstate access charges is even greater for rate-of-return carriers than for price cap carriers, given their size, diversity, and regulatory history. MAG Order, 16 FCC Rcd at 19668-69, para. 130. See 47 C.F.R. §§ 36.601-36.631 (high-cost loop support), 54.301 (LSS), 54.800-809 (IAS), 54.901-54.904 (ICLS). In the MAG Further Notice, the Commission tentatively concluded that Long Term Support should be merged into ICLS beginning July 1, 2003. See MAG Further Notice, 11 FCC Rcd at 19725-26, para. 274. Under each of the federal high-cost support mechanisms, competitive ETCs serving customers in the incumbent carrier's service area normally receive the same per-line amount
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  • Alaska Communications Systems - ATU, Alltel Ohio, Inc., North State Tel. Co. in North Carolina, Puerto Rico Tel. Co., and Roseville Tel. Co. in California. See MAG Order, 16 FCC Rcd 19676, para. 148, n. 405. The term ``price cap CMT revenues'' refers to a price cap incumbent LEC's common line, marketing, and transport interconnection charge revenues. 47 C.F.R. § 54.800. Interstate access support is based on the difference between a price cap carrier's study area average CMT revenue per line per month and the maximum allowable subscriber line charges. Id. at § 54.804. The total amount of interstate access support available for areas served by price cap carriers is limited to $650 million per year. Id. at § 54.801. See
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  • LTS will continue to be made available to LECs who elect price caps under this plan Maintain existing levels of Local Switching Support (LSS) for the duration of the plan: Amend §54.301(a) to freeze LSS on a study area basis for the duration of the plan Avoid any impact on the fixed $650 million fund of interstate CALLS support: Amend §54.800 to redefine Price Cap LEC for the purpose of Subpart J of Part 54 as excluding carriers that elect price caps under this later plan Create predictable and stable High-Cost Loop Support (HCLS): Amend §36.631 to freeze HCLS on a per-line basis. Amend §36.603 to adjust this frozen per-line amount only for GDP-CPI, while continuing to apply the Rural Growth
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  • Communications, Inc., Petition for Waiver of Sections 54.307 and 54.314 of the Commission's Rules and Regulations, CC Docket No. 96-45, Order, 19 FCC Rcd 15580, 15584, para. 9, n.34 (2004) (establishing a process for USAC to disburse funds retroactively to an ETC's designation date). 47 C.F.R. § 54.809(c). IAS helps offset interstate access charges for price-cap carriers. 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.800, et. seq. Each competitive ETC that provides supported services within the study area of a price-cap local exchange carrier receives IAS for each line that it serves within that study area. 47 C.F.R § 54.807(a). Multi-Association Group (MAG) Plan for Regulation of Interstate Services of Non-Price Cap Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers and Interexchange Carriers, Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service,
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  • number of qualifying lines each time it files line count data with the universal service administrator. Competitive ETCs must also comply with the document retention requirements for any such documentation. Comprehensive Review of the Universal Service Fund Management, Administration, and Oversight, WC Docket No. 05-195, Report and Order, 22 FCC Rcd 16372, 16383-84, para. 24. (2007). See 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.800-54.808; see also Letter from David B. Cohen, Vice-President, Policy, USTelecom, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, WC Docket No. 05-337, CC Docket No. 96-45 (filed November 21, 2007) (USTelecom IAS Letter). See USTelecom IAS Letter at 1-2. See infra section III.B.3 (Base Period for the Cap). See USTelecom IAS Letter at 2. See infra section III.B.3 (Base Period
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  • support provides support for intrastate network costs to non-rural incumbent LECs in states where the cost to provide service in non-rural areas exceeds two standard deviations above the national average cost per line. See 47 C.F.R. § 54.309. Interstate access support (IAS) provides support for price cap carriers to offset certain reductions in interstate access charges. See 47 C.F.R. § 54.800-809. Interstate common line support (ICLS) provides support to rate-of-return carriers, to the extent that subscriber line charge (SLC) caps do not permit such carriers to recover their interstate common line revenue requirements. See 47 C.F.R. § 54.901- 904. 6 See National Broadband Plan at 141. 7 Small carriers typically receive considerably more per-line support than larger carriers serving high-cost geographic
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  • 54.302 Annual per-line limit on universal service support. Subject to specified exceptions, beginning January 1, 2012, each study area in the continental United States shall be limited to $3,000 per-line annually in universal service support. For purposes of this section, universal service support is defined as the sum of the amounts calculated pursuant to sections 36.605, 36.631, 54.301, 54.305, 54.309, 54.800-808, and 54.901-904 of this chapter. Line counts for purposes of this section shall be as of the most recent line counts reported pursuant to section 36.611(h) of this chapter. The fund administrator, in order to limit support to $3,000 for affected carriers, shall reduce safety net additive support, high-cost loop support, local switching support, safety valve support, forward-looking support, interstate
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  • other community support organizations and entities. ***** High-cost support. ``High-cost support'' refers to those support mechanisms in existence as of October 1, 2011, specifically, high-cost loop support, safety net additive and safety valve provided pursuant to subpart F of part 36, local switching support pursuant to § 54.301, forward-looking support pursuant to § 54.309, interstate access support pursuant to §§ 54.800 through 54.809, and interstate common line support pursuant to §§ 54.901 through 54.904, support provided pursuant to §§ 51.915, 51.917, and 54.304, support provided to competitive eligible telecommunications carriers as set forth in §54.307(e), Connect America Fund support provided pursuant to § 54.312, and Mobility Fund support provided pursuant to subpart L of this part. * * * * *
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  • respective support mechanism. The expenses deducted from the annual funding for each support mechanism also shall include the Administrator's joint and common costs allocated to each support mechanism pursuant to the cost allocation manual filed by the Administrator under § 64.903 of this chapter. Sec. 54.717 remains unchanged. Subpart J - Interstate Access Universal Service Support Mechanism [All New] § 54.800 Terms and Definitions Average Price Cap CMT Revenue Per Line Per MonthStudy Area has the same meaning as that term is defined in § 61.3(d) of this chapter, except that it includes exogenous changes in effect prior to the effective date of a calculation made pursuant to § 54.808 and exogenous changes not yet effective related to the sale or
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  • carrier that serves qualifying low-income consumers who have toll blocking shall receive federal Lifeline support in an amount equal to the presubscribed interexchange carrier charge that the incumbent local exchange carrier in that area would be permitted to recover, if it served those consumers. Subpart I - Explicit Funding of Universal Service Support Currently Embedded in Interstate Access Rates § 54.800 Terms and Definitions (a) Average Price Cap CMT Revenue Per LineStudy Area. ``Average Price Cap CMT Revenue Per LineStudy Area'' has the same meaning as that term is defined in §§ 61.3(d). (b) MAA Phase In Percentage. "MAA Phase-In Percentage" is: 50% as of January 1__, 2000, 75% as of January 1, 2001 100% as of July 1, 2002. .
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  • access charge reform and universal service proposal put forth by members of the Coalition for Affordable Local and Long Distance Service (CALLS), provides approximately $650 million in explicit support to price cap LECs serving lines in study areas where they are unable to recover their permitted price cap revenues from newly revised subscriber lines charges (SLCs). See 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.800-54.807; see also Access Charge Reform, Sixth Report and Order in CC Docket No. 96-262 and 94-1, Report and Order in CC Docket No. 99-249, Eleventh Report and Order in CC Docket No. 96-45, FCC 00-103, at paras. 195, 206, 225 (rel. May 31, 2000) (Interstate Access Universal Service Order). ``Permitted revenues'' refers to the revenues a LEC is allowed to
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  • respective support mechanism. The expenses deducted from the annual funding for each support mechanism also shall include the Administrator's joint and common costs allocated to each support mechanism pursuant to the cost allocation manual filed by the Administrator under § 64.903 of this chapter. Sec. 54.717 remains unchanged. Subpart J - Interstate Access Universal Service Support Mechanism [All New] § 54.800 Terms and Definitions Average Price Cap CMT Revenue Per Line Per MonthStudy Area has the same meaning as that term is defined in § 61.3(d) of this chapter, except that it includes exogenous changes in effect prior to the effective date of a calculation made pursuant to § 54.808 and exogenous changes not yet effective related to the sale or
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  • Reform, Price Cap Performance Review for Local Exchange Carriers, Low-Volume Long Distance Users, Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, Sixth Report and Order in CC Docket Nos. 96-262 and 94-1, Report and Order in CC Docket No. 99-249, Eleventh Report and Order in CC Docket No. 96-45, FCC 00-193 (rel. May 31, 2000) (CALLS Order); see also 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.800-54.809 (interstate access universal service support mechanism rules), 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.403 (Lifeline rules as revised by the CALLS Order). In the CALLS Order, the Commission appointed USAC as the administrator for the new interstate access support mechanism and directed USAC's High Cost and Low Income Committee to oversee the operation of the mechanism. See CALLS Order at ¶ 226. See
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  • limitation on the amount of safety valve support available to carriers. See 47 C.F.R. § 54.305(e). See supra n.6. See Letter from David Cosson, Counsel for Blue Valley, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, CC Docket No. 96-45 (filed May 26, 2005). Id. As an interstate price cap LEC, United is eligible for IAS. See 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.800, et seq. See Petition at Appendix A. See Petition at 6-7. See 47 C.F.R. § 69.3(a). 47 C.F.R. § 69.3(e)(11). See Amendment of Part 69 of the Commission's Rules Relating to the Common Line Pool Status of Local Exchange Carriers Involved in Mergers or Acquisitions, CC Docket No. 89-2, Report and Order, 5 FCC Rcd 231, 248 (1989). See 47
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  • valve support available to carriers. See 47 C.F.R. § 54.305(e). See supra note 6. See Letter from David Cosson, Kraskin, Moorman & Cosson, LLC (counsel for Madison River), to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, CC Docket No. 96-45 (filed May 25, 2005). Id. As an interstate price cap LEC, BellSouth is eligible for IAS. See 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.800, et seq. See Letter from James Y. Kerr II, Commissioner, North Carolina Utilities Commission, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, CC Docket No. 96-45 (filed April 4, 2005). See Petition at 7. See 47 C.F.R. § 69.3(a). 47 C.F.R. § 69.3(e)(11). See Amendment of Part 69 of the Commission's Rules Relating to the Common Line Pool Status of
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  • Id. See New Mexico Order (attaching Amended Recommended Decision of the Hearing Examiner at 51). See Petition at 11. See Letter from Martin L. Stern, Preston, Gates, Ellis & Rouvelas, Meeds LLP, to Marlene Dortch, FCC, CC Docket No. 96-45 (filed May 23, 2006). Id. As an interstate price cap LEC, Qwest is eligible for IAS. See 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.800, et seq. We also note that the costs of deployment should be minimized by Sacred Wind's use of a fixed wireless local loop solution. According to USAC's most recent estimates, total high-cost support for 2006 is projected to be $4,147,059,854. See USAC Quarterly Administrative Filing 2006, Third Quarter (3Q) Appendix, HC02, filed May 2, 2006, at http://www.universalservice.org/overview/filings. See Petition at
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  • support to price-cap carriers as implicit universal service subsidies are removed from their interstate-access rates. Need: In implementing the statutory requirements, these rules ensure that the universal service interstate-access support mechanism is specific, predictable and sufficient as it moves from implicit to explicit subsidies. Legal Basis: 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 154(j), 201-209, 218-222, 254 and 403. Section Numbers and Titles: 54.800 Terms and definitions. 54.801 General. 54.802 Obligations of local exchange carriers and the Administrator. 54.803 Universal service zones. 54.804 Preliminary minimum access universal service support for a study area calculated by the Administrator. 54.805 Zone and study area above benchmark revenues calculated by the Administrator. 54.806 Calculation by the Administrator of interstate access universal service support for areas served by
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  • cost'' with ``high-cost'' and ``low cost'' with ``low-cost'' Amend Appendix B, § 54.705(c)(1) by redesignating subsections (A) through (E) as (i) through (v) Amend Appendix B, § 54.705(c)(2) by redesignating subsections (A) through (H) as (i) through (viii) Amend Appendix B, § 54.715(c), third sentence, by replacing ``high cost'' with ``high-cost'' and ``low cost'' with ``low-cost'' Amend Appendix B, § 54.800(a) by inserting ``of this chapter,'' between ``§ 61.3(d)'' and ``except'' and by inserting ``of this chapter that are'' between ``§ 61.45(i)(4)'' and ``not yet effective.'' Amend Appendix B, § 54.800(c); § 54.802(a), first and second sentences; §§ 54.804(a) and (b); §§ 54.807(c)(3) and (c)(4); § 61.48(m)(2)(vii), first sentence; § 69.152(d)(1); § 69.152(f); § 69.152(i); and § 69.152(q)(3) by replacing ``single
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  • Id. In the MAG Order, the Commission noted that the difficulty of determining the amount of implicit support contained in interstate access charges is even greater for rate-of-return carriers than for price cap carriers, given their size, diversity, and regulatory history. MAG Order, 16 FCC Rcd at 19668-69, para. 130. See 47 C.F.R. §§ 36.601-36.631 (high-cost loop support), 54.301 (LSS), 54.800-809 (IAS), 54.901-54.904 (ICLS). In the MAG Further Notice, the Commission tentatively concluded that Long Term Support should be merged into ICLS beginning July 1, 2003. See MAG Further Notice, 11 FCC Rcd at 19725-26, para. 274. Under each of the federal high-cost support mechanisms, competitive ETCs serving customers in the incumbent carrier's service area normally receive the same per-line amount
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  • Alaska Communications Systems - ATU, Alltel Ohio, Inc., North State Tel. Co. in North Carolina, Puerto Rico Tel. Co., and Roseville Tel. Co. in California. See MAG Order, 16 FCC Rcd 19676, para. 148, n. 405. The term ``price cap CMT revenues'' refers to a price cap incumbent LEC's common line, marketing, and transport interconnection charge revenues. 47 C.F.R. § 54.800. Interstate access support is based on the difference between a price cap carrier's study area average CMT revenue per line per month and the maximum allowable subscriber line charges. Id. at § 54.804. The total amount of interstate access support available for areas served by price cap carriers is limited to $650 million per year. Id. at § 54.801. See
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  • LTS will continue to be made available to LECs who elect price caps under this plan Maintain existing levels of Local Switching Support (LSS) for the duration of the plan: Amend §54.301(a) to freeze LSS on a study area basis for the duration of the plan Avoid any impact on the fixed $650 million fund of interstate CALLS support: Amend §54.800 to redefine Price Cap LEC for the purpose of Subpart J of Part 54 as excluding carriers that elect price caps under this later plan Create predictable and stable High-Cost Loop Support (HCLS): Amend §36.631 to freeze HCLS on a per-line basis. Amend §36.603 to adjust this frozen per-line amount only for GDP-CPI, while continuing to apply the Rural Growth
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  • Communications, Inc., Petition for Waiver of Sections 54.307 and 54.314 of the Commission's Rules and Regulations, CC Docket No. 96-45, Order, 19 FCC Rcd 15580, 15584, para. 9, n.34 (2004) (establishing a process for USAC to disburse funds retroactively to an ETC's designation date). 47 C.F.R. § 54.809(c). IAS helps offset interstate access charges for price-cap carriers. 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.800, et. seq. Each competitive ETC that provides supported services within the study area of a price-cap local exchange carrier receives IAS for each line that it serves within that study area. 47 C.F.R § 54.807(a). Multi-Association Group (MAG) Plan for Regulation of Interstate Services of Non-Price Cap Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers and Interexchange Carriers, Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service,
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  • number of qualifying lines each time it files line count data with the universal service administrator. Competitive ETCs must also comply with the document retention requirements for any such documentation. Comprehensive Review of the Universal Service Fund Management, Administration, and Oversight, WC Docket No. 05-195, Report and Order, 22 FCC Rcd 16372, 16383-84, para. 24. (2007). See 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.800-54.808; see also Letter from David B. Cohen, Vice-President, Policy, USTelecom, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, WC Docket No. 05-337, CC Docket No. 96-45 (filed November 21, 2007) (USTelecom IAS Letter). See USTelecom IAS Letter at 1-2. See infra section III.B.3 (Base Period for the Cap). See USTelecom IAS Letter at 2. See infra section III.B.3 (Base Period
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  • support provides support for intrastate network costs to non-rural incumbent LECs in states where the cost to provide service in non-rural areas exceeds two standard deviations above the national average cost per line. See 47 C.F.R. § 54.309. Interstate access support (IAS) provides support for price cap carriers to offset certain reductions in interstate access charges. See 47 C.F.R. § 54.800-809. Interstate common line support (ICLS) provides support to rate-of-return carriers, to the extent that subscriber line charge (SLC) caps do not permit such carriers to recover their interstate common line revenue requirements. See 47 C.F.R. § 54.901- 904. 6 See National Broadband Plan at 141. 7 Small carriers typically receive considerably more per-line support than larger carriers serving high-cost geographic
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  • 54.302 Annual per-line limit on universal service support. Subject to specified exceptions, beginning January 1, 2012, each study area in the continental United States shall be limited to $3,000 per-line annually in universal service support. For purposes of this section, universal service support is defined as the sum of the amounts calculated pursuant to sections 36.605, 36.631, 54.301, 54.305, 54.309, 54.800-808, and 54.901-904 of this chapter. Line counts for purposes of this section shall be as of the most recent line counts reported pursuant to section 36.611(h) of this chapter. The fund administrator, in order to limit support to $3,000 for affected carriers, shall reduce safety net additive support, high-cost loop support, local switching support, safety valve support, forward-looking support, interstate
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  • other community support organizations and entities. ***** High-cost support. ``High-cost support'' refers to those support mechanisms in existence as of October 1, 2011, specifically, high-cost loop support, safety net additive and safety valve provided pursuant to subpart F of part 36, local switching support pursuant to § 54.301, forward-looking support pursuant to § 54.309, interstate access support pursuant to §§ 54.800 through 54.809, and interstate common line support pursuant to §§ 54.901 through 54.904, support provided pursuant to §§ 51.915, 51.917, and 54.304, support provided to competitive eligible telecommunications carriers as set forth in §54.307(e), Connect America Fund support provided pursuant to § 54.312, and Mobility Fund support provided pursuant to subpart L of this part. * * * * *
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  • respective support mechanism. The expenses deducted from the annual funding for each support mechanism also shall include the Administrator's joint and common costs allocated to each support mechanism pursuant to the cost allocation manual filed by the Administrator under § 64.903 of this chapter. Sec. 54.717 remains unchanged. Subpart J - Interstate Access Universal Service Support Mechanism [All New] § 54.800 Terms and Definitions Average Price Cap CMT Revenue Per Line Per MonthStudy Area has the same meaning as that term is defined in § 61.3(d) of this chapter, except that it includes exogenous changes in effect prior to the effective date of a calculation made pursuant to § 54.808 and exogenous changes not yet effective related to the sale or
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  • carrier that serves qualifying low-income consumers who have toll blocking shall receive federal Lifeline support in an amount equal to the presubscribed interexchange carrier charge that the incumbent local exchange carrier in that area would be permitted to recover, if it served those consumers. Subpart I - Explicit Funding of Universal Service Support Currently Embedded in Interstate Access Rates § 54.800 Terms and Definitions (a) Average Price Cap CMT Revenue Per LineStudy Area. ``Average Price Cap CMT Revenue Per LineStudy Area'' has the same meaning as that term is defined in §§ 61.3(d). (b) MAA Phase In Percentage. "MAA Phase-In Percentage" is: 50% as of January 1__, 2000, 75% as of January 1, 2001 100% as of July 1, 2002. .
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  • access charge reform and universal service proposal put forth by members of the Coalition for Affordable Local and Long Distance Service (CALLS), provides approximately $650 million in explicit support to price cap LECs serving lines in study areas where they are unable to recover their permitted price cap revenues from newly revised subscriber lines charges (SLCs). See 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.800-54.807; see also Access Charge Reform, Sixth Report and Order in CC Docket No. 96-262 and 94-1, Report and Order in CC Docket No. 99-249, Eleventh Report and Order in CC Docket No. 96-45, FCC 00-103, at paras. 195, 206, 225 (rel. May 31, 2000) (Interstate Access Universal Service Order). ``Permitted revenues'' refers to the revenues a LEC is allowed to
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  • respective support mechanism. The expenses deducted from the annual funding for each support mechanism also shall include the Administrator's joint and common costs allocated to each support mechanism pursuant to the cost allocation manual filed by the Administrator under § 64.903 of this chapter. Sec. 54.717 remains unchanged. Subpart J - Interstate Access Universal Service Support Mechanism [All New] § 54.800 Terms and Definitions Average Price Cap CMT Revenue Per Line Per MonthStudy Area has the same meaning as that term is defined in § 61.3(d) of this chapter, except that it includes exogenous changes in effect prior to the effective date of a calculation made pursuant to § 54.808 and exogenous changes not yet effective related to the sale or
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  • Reform, Price Cap Performance Review for Local Exchange Carriers, Low-Volume Long Distance Users, Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, Sixth Report and Order in CC Docket Nos. 96-262 and 94-1, Report and Order in CC Docket No. 99-249, Eleventh Report and Order in CC Docket No. 96-45, FCC 00-193 (rel. May 31, 2000) (CALLS Order); see also 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.800-54.809 (interstate access universal service support mechanism rules), 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.403 (Lifeline rules as revised by the CALLS Order). In the CALLS Order, the Commission appointed USAC as the administrator for the new interstate access support mechanism and directed USAC's High Cost and Low Income Committee to oversee the operation of the mechanism. See CALLS Order at ¶ 226. See