Don't Eliminate 8YY Access Charges, Frontier Tells FCC

Frontier Communications raised concerns about proposals for 8YY overhaul that would eliminate 8YY access charges (see 2008250033). The change “would result in revenue losses and … Frontier would not enjoy any offsetting reduction in payment of access charges associated with such traffic,” the company told an aide to Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, said a filing posted Thursday in docket 18-156. Due to continued rate regulation at the state and federal level and federal caps on rates imposed by the 2011 USF/intercarrier compensation Transformation Order, Frontier said it "cannot simply raise overall rates to compensate for lost revenues.”