Top executives from Windy City Cellular met with FCC officials...
Top executives from Windy City Cellular met with FCC officials to press for commission action on the company’s April 3 petition for waiver seeking relief from the agency’s recent “flash-cut” of annual per-line support for competitive eligible telecommunications carriers. The…
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decision meant an 84 percent decline in funding for the company and could force a shutdown, said an ex parte filing on the meetings (http://xrl.us/bm8whm). Windy City is building a network in what it calls “one of the most remote and inhospitable locations in the United States of America -- Adak Island in the Bering Sea.” Among those attending were CEO Larry Mayes and Andilea Weaver, chief operating officer. “The parties emphasized that a delay in relief is tantamount to an order to shut down service: WCC will be forced to shut down all operations in only five weeks if the Commission does not grant a waiver quickly,” the filing said. “The company will run out of money by July 1. The company will also need to expend dwindling resources to send out notices of potential discontinuance under federal rules to its customers as well as file a discontinuance notice with the FCC.” “Mr. Mayes and his team built this system in the face of frequent cyclonic winds with gusts in excess of 100 knots, fog storms, an average accumulated snowfall of 100 inches, earthquakes, a nearby active volcano, rain more than 260 days per year, and tsunamis, and in an area saturated with active bombs and infested with large rats,” the filing said.