Consolidated Talks With Wireline Bureau Staff on How to Bolster Waiver Request
Consolidated Communications Networks spoke with FCC Wireline Bureau staff on what it could provide the FCC to bolster a petition, so it "can be granted expeditiously," a consultant reported. JSI noted the rural broadband experiment participating telco seeks waiver from…
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certifying that it built out all locations derived from the Connect America model to not keep open an irrevocable letter of credit. Consolidated gets such money for 171 North Dakota extremely high-cost locations where it's "confident" it deployed broadband to all locations in funded census blocks. It "could only find a total of 162 locations after extensive searching in the sparsely populated census blocks" and there's "no mechanism ... for dealing with location discrepancies," said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 10-90. The company fears "it will face penalties for not certifying a completed buildout to 171 locations at the end of the funding period." This telco is separate from the bigger and better-known Northeast U.S. phone-services provider Consolidated Communications Holdings, JSI and Consolidated Communications Holdings representatives emailed us. JSI is that bigger company's USF consultant.