A “clarification” order released by the FCC Wireline...

A “clarification” order released by the FCC Wireline Bureau Monday (http://fcc.us/1i8HlJw) corrects “certain rules” relating to implementation of the intercarrier compensation (ICC) transition adopted in the 2011 USF/ICC order. Language in sections 51.907 and 51.909 was clarified to “reflect ongoing rate parity in the transition process for price cap and rate-of-return” LECs, the order said. The bureau also clarified aspects of the rules relating to transition of terminating end office access rates, and the calculation of eligible recovery for price cap and rate-of-return carriers beginning in 2014. The bureau also clarified an issue “related to duplicative recovery and the true-up of regulatory fees and revenue calculations.”