USTelecom Seeks Carrier Revenue Recovery in Transition to 8YY Access Charge Revision

USTelecom met with FCC Wireline Deputy Bureau Chief Lisa Hone and an aide to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on its effort to develop a consensus proposal on 8YY revisions as the agency seeks to transition many rate elements to bill and keep (see 1809050027). The group "emphasized the need for a suitable recovery mechanism that would allow carriers to recover 8YY originating access revenues as intercarrier compensation reforms are implemented," it said in a filing posted Tuesday in docket 18-156. Those mechanisms should differ for price cap and rate-of-return ILECs, it added.