SouthernLINC Wireless asked the FCC to grant the Georgia Public S...
SouthernLINC Wireless asked the FCC to grant the Georgia Public Service Commission a waiver after the state agency failed to list four carriers receiving universal support when it sought Universal Service Fund certification from the FCC and the Universal…
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Service Administrative Co. in October. The PSC realized it had made a mistake and sought a waiver. “This mistake was neither the result of a failure by any of the affected carriers to comply with GPSC or Commission rules nor was it the result of any finding by the GPSC that the affected carriers had violated the requirement that USF support be used ‘only for the provision, maintenance, and upgrading of facilities and services for which the support is intended,'” SouthernLINC said. It said omission of the competitive eligible telecommunications carriers was “a simple administrative oversight” for which the ETCs shouldn’t be penalized.