FCC Announces Timeline for Completion of 2017 Urban Rate Survey

The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) will shortly be initiating the urban rate survey for 2017. The information collected in this survey will be used, among other things, to develop voice and broadband reasonable comparability benchmarks that will be in place in 2017. To obtain statistically valid samples, the Bureau will be collecting the rates offered by providers of fixed services identified using FCC Form 477 data (as of June 30, 2015). There will be separate samples for fixed voice and fixed broadband services with up to 500 urban Census tracts in each. Completed surveys will be due on October 25, 2016. (WC Docket No. 10-90)