Small Kansas Carrier Seeks Waiver for Mistake on USF Form
Nex-Tech Wireless, a small wireless carrier in rural Kansas, asked the FCC to cut it a break after it made a mistake on a form carriers use to report revenue subject to the USF. “For the first time since it…
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began filing Form 499, NTW made a clerical error on its Form 499-Q due February 1, 2016, resulting in a large overstatement of its projected interstate revenues for the second quarter of 2016,” NTW said. NTW said it didn't learn of the error until it received an invoice April 22. As a result, the company missed the 45-day deadline for revising the filing, it said. “As a result, the charges on its April 22 invoice were nearly three times what they should have been,” NTW said. Dollar figures were redacted in the public version of the FCC filing. NTW asked for a waiver of the 45-day deadline and a break on interest and penalties as a result of the mistake.