2017 Urban Rate Floor

Results of 2017 urban rate survey for fixed voice and broadband services released public notice da 17 167.

2017 urban rate floor. Since ffy 2005 october 1 2004 hospitals in all urban states have been eligible to receive an imputed rural floor. Completing the survey urban rate survey data collection site instructions pdf open in chrome. 04 05 16 results of 2016 urban rate survey for fixed voice and broadband services released. Each year the fcc conducts a survey of the fixed voice and broadband service rates offered to consumers in urban areas.

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. In addition it announced the posting of the fixed voice and broadband services data collected in the most recent urban rate survey and. The commission concluded that the rate floor would be phased in over several years. The nprm proposes to eliminate the local service rate floor rule altogether.

To implement this requirement the commission delegated authority to wcb and the. Unfortunately this action places legacy rate of return ror companies in a difficult position. The upcoming local service rate floor increase to 20 is effective june 1 2017. In many states customers must be notified 30 days prior to any rate increases.

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. 10 beginning july 1 2012 14 beginning july 1 2013 and then the average urban rate as determined from data in the urban rates survey beginning july 1 2014 15 5. 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. 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.