Opponents of efforts to redefine rural service areas in Montana...
Opponents of efforts to redefine rural service areas in Montana are merely trying to “delay, delay, delay” at the expense of rural customers, Montana Independent Telecommunications Systems said in reply comments in docket 09-197. “Those who would be most harmed…
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by further delay in this redefinition proceeding are the rural consumers still waiting for access to mobile communications within this remote area of service.” At the heart of Tuesday’s comments is a petition from Triangle Communication System (TCS), which is seeking eligible telecom carrier status in Montana. Montana regulators have already signed off on the petition, and Montana Telecom urged that the federal commission should give the Montana commission credence. Montana regulators “like the FCC,” have “a strong interest in extending voice and broadband service ... to areas where consumers have little or no access to such services,” Tuesday’s reply comments said (http://xrl.us/bmnni7). “The FCC can be assured that [Montana regulators] conducted a thorough analysis before unanimously concluding in two separate Orders that the redefinition and subsequent designation of TCS as an ETC was in the public interest.”