Frontier Agrees to South Carolina Audit but Objects to Suspending Support
Suspending South Carolina USF support to Frontier Communications while an audit takes place would be like handing “down a sentence before holding a trial,” and is “neither supported by law nor regulation,” Frontier said Monday in docket 2019-352-C. After a…
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24-day Frontier outage last month, the South Carolina Office of Regulatory Staff asked the Public Service Commission to freeze payments pending an audit to determine whether the carrier appropriately used the funding (see 1911140033). Frontier said it answered ORS requests for information and will cooperate with any audit, even though the carrier think it’s “unnecessary” because “even with USF support Frontier is suffering a net loss on its regulated operations in South Carolina.” Suspending support would cause Frontier irreparable harm as a carrier of last resort, it said.