FCC wrongly used TNS Telecoms bill-harvesting data as a source fo...
FCC wrongly used TNS Telecoms bill-harvesting data as a source for a new universal-service wireless safe harbor of 37.1%, Verizon and Cingular said. Cingular said that number, proposed for approval by the Commission (CD May 31 p1), seems to…
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match one in a 2005 TracFone PowerPoint presentation filed with the FCC. “Neither TracFone nor TNS proffered that study for the purpose of modifying the wireless safe harbor, and -- as TracFone readily admits -- the TNS study is inherently unreliable,” Cingular said: “TracFone states that the errors are likely to understate interstate usage, but Cingular believes the study’s assumptions would just as likely overstate it.” Verizon told the FCC: “If the Commission decides to make any changes to its USF policies for wireless carriers it should not do so based upon the TNS study.”