100 Percent Overlap Public Notice

The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau adopts the methodology used to determine rate-of-return carrier study areas subject to 100 percent overlap and publishes a preliminary list of such study areas using the adopted methodology.

Pursuant to the FCC’s direction in the December 2014 Connect America Fund Order, the FCC seeks comment on this preliminary determination. Once the comment cycle is complete, the FCC will publish a final determination of the study areas subject to a 100 percent overlap. Pursuant to FCC rule, high-cost universal service support for the study areas on the final list will be frozen at the amount disbursed in the prior calendar year, and the phase-down in support will commence.

Comments Due: August 28, 2015. Reply Comments Due: September 28, 2015.

[WC Docket No. 10-90]