FCC Approves RDOF Waiver for Indiana Provider
The FCC Wireline Bureau approved a waiver for Indiana’s Rural Telephone Corp. (RTC) of the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund milestone and noncompliance rules to permit it to pay early a portion of the required support recovery for defaulting on…
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eligible census blocks within census block groups (CBGs) in its RDOF-funded service area. “Our grant of this limited waiver serves the public interest because we are able to safeguard the public’s funds by recovering support early for CBGs RTC will not serve pursuant to its RDOF obligations,” said an order posted Wednesday in docket 10-90. The waiver also “enables RTC to come into compliance with its RDOF obligations in its remaining CBGs, allowing RTC to continue receiving support, so that RTC can serve consumers with voice and broadband,” the bureau said.