Georgia Telcos Ask FCC for Extra Revenue To Recover Unpaid Halo Wireless Costs
Five Georgia ILECs asked the FCC to include in their "base period revenues" (BPR) $121,774 that they said they had been unable to collect in 2012 from Halo Wireless, which went into Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Brantley Telephone, Pembroke Telephone, Pineland…
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Telephone Cooperative, Public Service Telephone and Waverly Hall Telephone filed an emergency petition Tuesday in docket 10-90 seeking to collect their Halo charges in the BPR effective July 1, 2012. The carriers said the absent cost recovery was harming their ability to make network investments, giving the commission "good cause" to grant the request, which would "meet the objectives" of the agency's 2011 USF and intercarrier compensation transformation order. They said the relief would be similar to that the FCC granted with conditions to other carriers, including TDS Telecom. Windstream is also seeking relief for charges it said were unpaid by Halo (see 1509020059).