Adak Eagle Enterprises and its subsidiary, Windy City...
Adak Eagle Enterprises and its subsidiary, Windy City Cellular, met with an aide to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Monday to ask the commission to grant its petition for waiver of the per-line monthly caps on high-cost universal service support, an…
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ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/1jmUWlk). “The companies have embodied the very purpose of universal service by working hard and reinvesting USF support to maintain essential services -- including the only reliable 911 service, the only broadband service, the only wireline service, and the most comprehensive wireless service -- for residents, government agencies, business, and workers on Adak Island -- one of the most remote areas of the United States,” said the Alaskan carriers. The Wireline and Wireless bureaus’ rejection of the waiver request makes no sense “from a legal, policy, or fiscal perspective,” they said. “AEE and WCC are hopeful that the Chairman will promptly correct course before their interim relief expires in two weeks and the companies are forced into bankruptcy."