The FCC designated Standing Rock Telecom, a tribally owned wireless...
The FCC designated Standing Rock Telecom, a tribally owned wireless carrier, as an eligible telecom carrier (ETC), effective immediately. As a result, Standing Rock will be eligible to receive federal Universal Service Fund money to bring wireless service to the…
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sparsely populated Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Reservation, which straddles the border of South and North Dakota. Additionally, the FCC held that redefinition of a rural telephone company service area is unnecessary when the ETC is designated throughout the rural service areas within the FCC’s jurisdictional authority (i.e. those rural telephone company service areas within Reservation boundaries). Therefore, unlike in the earlier Wireline Bureau ETC Designation Order, no state commission consent is needed before Standing Rock’s ETC designation takes effect, the FCC said.