WTA Files Comments on Local Voice Service Rate Floor

On July 10, WTA filed comments in response to the FCC’s NPRM on the local voice service rate floor. WTA believes that the Section 54.318 rate floor is inequitable and unnecessary, and that its costs increasingly outweigh its intended benefits. However, to the extent that the Commission believes that retention of a rate floor remains necessary for any reason, WTA proposes that such rate floor be calculated at an amount equal to two standard deviations below the urban voice rate determined by survey, and that such rate floor be re-calculated no more frequently than once every five or more years.