Technologie i telekomunikacja · 24.08.1998

Model Platform Development

In the Universal Service Order, 62 FR 32862 (June 17, 1997), the Commission stated that it would select a federal mechanism to calculate the forward-looking economic cost of non-rural carriers serving rural, insular, and high cost areas. The Commission determined that it would select the ``platform'' (fixed assumptions and algorithms) of the mechanism in one stage, and that it would select other parts of the mechanism, including all input values, in a second stage. Three models have been submitted to the Commission for consideration as the platform for the federal mechanism: the Benchmark Cost Proxy Model (BCPM), the HAI Model (HAI), and the Hybrid Cost Proxy Model (HCPM). In an effort to move towards a result that combines the best ideas of all parties considering these complex issues, this document seeks comment on approaches to a model platform that combine specific aspects from the customer location and outside plant modules of the models under consideration.