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NTCA Supports UP Fiber Waiver Request

NTCA filed in support of UP Fiber’s proposed acquisition of 40 wire centers in 42 exchanges and the associated customers from AT&T’s Michigan Bell (see 2507310023). Its comments, the only ones filed so far on the transaction, address a requested…

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waiver to allow the creation of a study area for UP Fiber. “The transaction … will enable the provision of robust and reliable voice and broadband services to the areas that are the subject of the waiver without affecting existing” USF distributions, the group said this week in docket 25-281. UP Fiber's name is tied to its proposed service to the sparsely populated Upper Peninsula of Michigan.