Gila River Telecommunications is urging the FCC to grant permissi...
Gila River Telecommunications is urging the FCC to grant permission in docket 80-286 to alter its intrastate and interstate networks. The telco determined which of its networks were subject to intrastate and interstate funding, and voluntarily locked them in…
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2001, “to reduce regulatory burdens as suggested by the commission,” it said in a filing. When GRTI changed its switches and carrier systems, its network “evolved from a switch-based network to a more efficient circuit-based network, to better utilize state-of the-art network design.” The petition was filed in Nov. 2006, and still remains pending. The freeze has cost GRTI more than $1.4 million annually in USF high cost support, it said. To continue expanding its network and providing “affordable service without rate increases to the mostly low- income tribal community, GRTI needs the high cost support to which it would be entitled but for its 2001 interim election.”