Four South Carolina RLECs Seek To Recover Costs of Charges Owed by Halo
Four South Carolina rural telcos asked the FCC for a waiver to recover access charges they said they were unable to collect from Halo Wireless. In an emergency request filed in docket 10-90, Horry Telephone, PBT Telecom, Palmetto Rural Telephone…
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Cooperative and Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative sought the waiver in order to include amounts Halo owed them in their "Base Period Revenues" effective as of July 1, 2012. They said they had been deprived of $128,827 that would have been included in their BPR "but for Halo's access avoidance efforts and subsequent bankruptcy." The Wireline Bureau recently sought comment (see 1601150052) on a similar request from five Georgia RLECs (see 1601060013).