Alaska PUC Footnotes

[1]¹See the Position Statement of the Distance Delivery Consortium (DDC), addressed to the Federal-State Joint Board CC Docket No. 96-45, April 5, 1996. The DDC provided limited examples where Internet access costs to rural schools were 32 to 338 times higher than that found in an urban area, with service improvements in the rural areas at times not available for a number of years.

[2]²See July 3, 1996, filing by US West and Sprint, CC Docket No. 96-45.

[3]³APUC's analysis was run assuming a $20, $50, and $80 revenue benchmark. For the $20, and $50 benchmark, Alaska has the lowest BCM2 support to historical loop support ratio. For the $80 benchmark, 75% of the states have a higher BCM2 support to historical support ratio than Alaska.

[4]⁴Assuming existing levels of USF support ($31 million) are reduced to the BCM2 level ($11 million at the $80 benchmark), with approximately 180,000 rural access lines affected.