FCC Denies RLEC Waiver Bids on Financial Statement Deadline, Declines to Recover Support
The FCC denied 21 rural telco petitions to waive a deadline for filing audited financial statements for their annual Form 481 reporting obligations. The requests failed to demonstrate "special circumstances" for waiving their duties as privately held USF eligible telecom…
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carriers, said a Wireline Bureau order in docket 10-90 in Monday's Daily Digest. On its own motion, the bureau granted a limited waiver "such that no support will be recovered from the petitioners in this instance" but said it doesn't intend to grant such waiver petitions going forward. It said eight of the small RLEC petitioners (listed in an appendix) hadn't yet filed the required financial information, and if they don't do so within 120 days of July 13, the Universal Service Administrative Co. is directed to reduce their support pursuant to a rule 54.313(j).