Verizon, Verizon Wireless and 11...
Verizon, Verizon Wireless and 11 rural LECs have urged the FCC to reject Corr Wireless’s appeal to redistribute high-cost universal service funds to competitive eligible telecommunications carriers (CETCs). Last month, the commission agreed with Corr that the Universal Service Administrative…
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Co. couldn’t alter the interim high-cost USF cap after Sprint and Verizon agreed to forgo their support funds (CD Sept 7 p1). But the commission ruled against Corr’s request that the money surrendered be doled out to CETCs. Corr and Allied Wireless Communications have asked the FCC to reconsider. In comments filed late Thursday, Verizon and Verizon Wireless said nothing in the interim cap order that forced them to walk away from high-cost support contributions required redistribution. The 11 RLECs -- 3 Rivers Telephone Cooperative, BEK Communications Cooperative, Choctaw Telephone, Delhi Telephone, Dickey Rural Telephone Cooperative, Harrisonville Telephone, Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative, Smart City Telecom, SRT Communications, Waitsfield-Fayston Telephone and Wiggins Telephone Association -- said Verizon and Sprint represent some $530 million of the high-cost fund and giving CETCs a slice would be “an end run” around cap rules.