FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler reassured Sen. Mary Landrieu,...

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler reassured Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., that he plans to end quantile regression analysis in determining high-cost USF support, as he’s previously told Congress. “I directed the Wireline Competition Bureau to prepare an Order for the Commission’s consideration that would eliminate the WRA,” Wheeler said in an April 11 letter, released Friday (http://bit.ly/1mkg5v2). “That Order, which will also address SNA [safety net additive] support, is now on circulation for my colleagues’ consideration at our April 2014 open agenda meeting.” Landrieu worried that the November 2011 USF order, which instituted quantile regression analysis, contained rules that “may hamper investment” in Louisiana, as she wrote in a Feb. 25 letter to Wheeler.