Summary: Revises Tariff WN U-3, decreasing the intrastate terminating local switching access rate and concurring with the applicable newly established interstate access rates in TDS FCC Tariff No. 1. The company has exited the National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA) traffic sensitive pool. This filing is consistent with the FCC’s November 18, 2011, “Transformation Order” (FCC 11-161); regarding intercarrier compensation (ICC) reform, “Step 6” of the nine step process for rate-of-return carriers. TDS also requests an effective date of July 1, 2017.
