The FCC should grant Dell Telephone Cooperative’s petition for waiver...

southeast New Mexico, said application of the new rules to Dell would have severe impacts and likely lead to the loss of voice service in the Dell service area. Dell seeks a waiver of the $250 per line per month cap, the rule limiting reimbursable capital and operating expenses applied to high-cost loop support, and rules limiting recovery of corporate operations expenses applied to HCLS and interstate common line support. “Given the dire financial situation facing Dell as a result of the FCC’s USF reform policies and the very real possibility that its customers will lose essential voice service, Leaco supports Dell’s request for waiver,” the telco said (http://xrl.us/bnj78m). “This is no trifling matter,” said Peñasco Valley. “There are scant alternatives for Dell’s customers if it is forced into liquidation,” the telco wrote, noting “several similarities between itself and Dell, both in the challenges of serving a sparsely populated service area in harsh (both geographic and climatic) outside plant conditions, and in the financial harm threatened by the Commission’s new high cost rules” (http://xrl.us/bnj78y).