WTA Files Comments in Support of Separations Freeze

On August 27, WTA, filed comments supporting the FCC’s proposed 15-year extension of the existing freeze of Part 36 jurisdictional allocation factors for rate-of-return carriers. WTA also asks the Commission to allow rate-of-return carriers to improve the accuracy of their cost allocations while controlling their regulatory compliance costs by: (1) offering a one-time option to those carriers that elected to freeze their category relationships in 2001 to unfreeze them as of a specified date; and (2) offering another one-time option to all rate-of-return carriers – both those that accept the option to unfreeze their 2001 category relationships and those that have not previously.