The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau has adopted an Order providing a limited waiver of its rules for price cap LECs and rate-of-return carriers that elected incentive regulation for their business data services by extending the effective date of the mid-year exogenous cost tariff filing, October 1, 2024, to November 1, 2024. The FCC determined that the limited waiver was warranted to allow carriers sufficient time to calculate and implement tariff rate changes based, in part, on the FCC’s recently released FY 2024 regulatory fees for interstate telecommunications service providers. The FCC noted that the effective date for the federal universal service fund contribution factor tariff filing, October 1, 2024, will remain the same.
