Rural Associations File Petition for Reconsideration of Portions of 6th Order on Reconsideration

Today, WTA, NECA and ERTA filed a Petition for Reconsideration of portions of the FCC’s 6th Order on Reconsideration of its USF/ICC Transformation Order.  Specifically, the three associations requested that the FCC reconsider its determination that the quantile regression methodology results in predictable support for carriers and that it reasonably based its benchmarks on analyses of similarly situated companies, therefore the benchmarks should be not used to determine support amounts. The associations also requested that the FCC reconsider its decision that rejected the rural associations’ proposal that the regression model and benchmarks be used only to trigger a harder look to determine whether a carrier’s costs are truly inefficient.