NCTA Continue Push for Pole Rate Protections Under ILEC Accounting Relief
After assuring the FCC that changing Part 32 telco accounting rules to let carriers rely exclusively on generally accepted accounting procedures wouldn't lead to higher pole attachment rates, telcos are now saying they made no such guarantees, NCTA said in…
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a docket 14-130 reply posted Tuesday. The filing responded to USTelecom and AT&T oppositions to its petition that the agency revise pole-attachment aspects of its order streamlining price-cap ILEC accounting (see 1707240051). NCTA said no one refuted its contentions of how pole rents can be inflated using GAAP. It said the required implementation rate differential isn't enough of a safeguard against rate increases under a GAAP-based regime. The association said the FCC should continue to provide access to pole cost data through public postings and pre-complaint discovery and require carriers responding to that discovery provide disaggregated pole cost data and not require confidential treatment.