[2] P. 131, Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee of Conference.

[3] The RTC assumes that the question is using "core services" as a synonym for "universal services" defined pursuant to [[section]] 254(c). The Act does not provide for a distinct universal service category of "core services," although it allows a separate definition for schools, libraries and rural health care providers and allows a state to adopt and fund a broader universal service definition, [[section]] 254(f).

[4] The RTC has suggested that a formula will be necessary to disaggregate high cost compensation. Such a formula is different because it would apply only to allocate the actual costs of a company into cost, density or distance zones, concepts which have been used in past ratemaking by some LECs.

[5] Consistent with this position is the case in which a non-facilities based carrier "resell" universal services until the facilities-based carrier upgrades its network to accommodate the required services. This would also be true in the case of a qualifying carrier that seeks to use infrastructure sharing to satisfy its eligible carrier status requirements.

[6] See also, [[section]] 253(f).