# Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2003-02-10 · Effective 2003-03-12 · 68 FR 6646
## Document
- **Document number:** 03-3111
- **Category:** universal-service
- **Federal Register citation:** 68 FR 6646
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 54
- **Publication date:** 2003-02-10
- **Effective date:** 2003-03-12
- **FCC docket:** CC Docket No. 96-45
## Abstract

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission's (Commission) Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) adopts the Delphi version of the forward-looking cost model with certain incorporated technical improvements, which has been translated from Turbo-Pascal computer language, for calculating high-cost universal service support for non-rural carriers. To avoid the possibility of two successive changes in support amounts within a relatively short period of time, the Bureau defers calculating support for non-rural carriers using the Delphi version of the forward-looking cost model with incorporated technical improvements until the effective date of a Commission order in the separate proceeding addressing the non-rural high-cost support methodology adopted in the Ninth Report and Order, which was remanded to the Commission by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/02/10/03-3111/federal-state-joint-board-on-universal-service)
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