2017 Urban Rate Floor

In many states customers must be notified 30 days prior to any rate increases.

2017 urban rate floor.

The upcoming local service rate floor increase to 20 is effective june 1 2017. Word pdf text. The commission concluded that the rate floor would be phased in over several years. There were however states that did not have a rural area and were considered all urban.

The fcc uses the survey data to determine the reasonable comparability benchmarks for fixed voice and broadband rates for universal service purposes. To implement this requirement the commission delegated authority to wcb and the. 04 05 16 results of 2016 urban rate survey for fixed voice and broadband services released. The nprm proposes to eliminate the local service rate floor rule altogether.

The federal communications commission s wireline competition bureau announced the 2017 rate floor for incumbent eligible telecommunications carriers etcs and reasonable comparability benchmarks for fixed voice and broadband services. Since these all urban states did not have a rural hospital cms created the imputed rural floor by regulation. Because the rate floor is being phased in see the schedule below companies will only face a reduction of high cost support on a dollar for dollar basis to the extent that a carrier s local rates plus state fees are below. Since ffy 2005 october 1 2004 hospitals in all urban states have been eligible to receive an imputed rural floor.

Based on the most recent urban rate survey the 2017 rate floor for voice services is 22 49 up from 21 93 in 2016. Word pdf text. 09 22 16 wcb announces timeline for completion of 2017 urban rate survey public notice da 16 1074. Each year the fcc conducts a survey of the fixed voice and broadband service rates offered to consumers in urban areas.

Results of 2017 urban rate survey for fixed voice and broadband services released public notice da 17 167. In addition it announced the posting of the fixed voice and broadband services data collected in the most recent urban rate survey and.