Valley Telephone Cooperative said it’s “deeply concerned about a framework...
Valley Telephone Cooperative said it’s “deeply concerned about a framework that caps investment in our future rural infrastructure and eliminates reimbursement for expenses already incurred or committed to in order to provide quality, state-of-art technologies to rural businesses and residential…
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customers.” The telco wrote the FCC in support of a petition by Dell Telephone Cooperative for limited waiver of certain high-cost universal service rules, including the cap of $250 per line per month, the rule limiting reimbursable expenses related to high-cost loop support (HCLS), and the extended limits on recovery of corporate operations expenses applied to HCLS and interstate common line support (http://xrl.us/bni6oy). “The demographics of Dell, like VTCI, require large sums of USF per customer to provide and maintain the services each rural American has had a right to receive since the Communications Act of 1934,” the telco wrote. “VTCI recommends swift action by the FCC approving the limited waiver requests."