ITTA and USTelecom say the regulatory regime that governs business data services (BDS) should be revised for rural telcos that the lack scale and financial power of their larger telco counterparts.
In a joint filing, ITTA and USTelecom told the FCC that legacy BDS regulations that currently apply to many rural telcos “impose unnecessary costs and prevent these carriers from offering beneficial rates, terms and conditions to their customers.”
“Continued compliance with rate-or-return-based rate regulation, including tariffing, tariff review plans and associated requirements, entails significant costs that are increasingly difficult for model-based rate-of-return carriers to recover,” ITTA and USTelecom said in an FCC filing (PDF).
