The FCC granted three unopposed petitions for waiver of its...
The FCC granted three unopposed petitions for waiver of its study area boundary freeze, said a public notice released Wednesday (http://xrl.us/bmwmcp). The Wireline Bureau found that each of the three batches of petitioners -- Mid-Rivers Telephone Cooperative; Pine Drive Telephone…
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Co. and Qwest; and Upper Peninsula Telephone Co. and Michigan Central Broadband Co. -- satisfied the three-pronged waiver standard in effect when the petitions were filed. To satisfy the test, petitioners demonstrated that the change in study area boundaries would not adversely affect the Universal Service Fund; the relevant state commission did not object to proposed transfers of various local exchanges; and the transfers were in the public interest.