The FCC should grant Guadalupe Valley Telephone Cooperative’s...
The FCC should grant Guadalupe Valley Telephone Cooperative’s emergency request for an expedited waiver of Section 51.917(c) of the commission’s rules, NTCA said in comments (http://bit.ly/1mYYFkW) posted Tuesday to docket 10-90. The Texas company relies on USF support and intercarrier…
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compensation revenue, the filing said. The company is requesting it be able to include as company base period revenue of $278,317.62 owed to it by Halo, which has been forced into Chapter 7 bankruptcy, ceased operations and liquidated all of its assets, the filing said. Quoting GVTC’s petition, NTCA said the inability to include the Halo money “would have ‘a significant adverse impact on GVTC’s recovery mechanism funding,’ and would ‘limit[] the company’s ability to invest in and improve its network.'” TDS Telecommunications should be granted a waiver from the March 31, 2012, deadline for defining its eligibility recovery baseline as set forth in footnote 1745 of the USF-for-broadband order, the company’s outside attorney Yaron Dori told FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s legal adviser, Daniel Alvarez, on Monday, said an ex parte notice (http://bit.ly/1mZ9L9E) posted in docket 13-39 Tuesday. Halo’s bankruptcy made it “legally impossible” to obtain a court or regulatory decision order to force Halo to pay amounts ordered to TDS for inclusion in the baseline, the filing said.