26 Del. Admin. Code § 4006-5.0

Current through Register Vol. 28, No. 7, January 1, 2025

Section 4006-5.0 - True-up Upon Determination of Actual Costs

5.1 After a Commission determination of actual costs for providing RCF interim number portability, the Commission, on its own motion or upon the petition of a telecommunications carrier, may order a reconciliation or true-up of the cost recovery mechanism set forth in these Rules.

5.2 In the reconciliation or true-up process, the determined TELRIC costs shall be used to calculate the costs for purposes of the threshold under Rule 3.3 and to make adjustments to all cost assessments previously recovered by the local exchange carrier under Rules 3.4 through 3.7. The reconciliation shall apply to the entire interim period.

5.3 Payments of adjusted amounts due under the reconciliation shall be recovered through a method agreed upon by the carriers. If no agreement can be reached, any carrier may petition the Commission to determine a reconciliation recovery method.

COMMENTS: This section creates a true-up mechanism to adjust the amounts calculated by use of the proxies with the TELRIC costs, once determined. Under the process, once actual costs have been determined, the threshold can be re-calculated and any costs incurred and assessed thereafter reconciled. When the assessments using TELRIC costs exceed the amounts collected by use of the proxy costs, the additional assessments may be collected from the previously assessed carriers. Conversely, if the TELRIC costs are below the amounts collected using the proxy costs, the assessed carriers may recover the excess payments. The over- and under-recoveries are both net of the threshold amount set forth in Rule 3.3.

26 Del. Admin. Code § 4006-5.0