TDS Telecom asked the FCC for help in recovering money...
TDS Telecom asked the FCC for help in recovering money lost to Halo Wireless. The telco “seeks a limited waiver of the Commission’s [USF/ICC Transformation Order] rules so it can include in its eligible recovery baseline calculation the intrastate revenues…
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that it billed Halo for usage during FY2011 for each of the TDS Telecom Subsidiaries,” it said in a Friday petition (http://xrl.us/bnkknf). Halo Wireless was liquidated in late July after battling AT&T across numerous state public utility commissions over disputes about an interconnection agreement and access charges (CD Aug 2 p8). But Halo “still owes TDS Telecom compensation for access services rendered in Fiscal Year 2011” despite its liquidation, TDS said, noting “Halo has confirmed that it lacks sufficient assets to make such payment through the orderly wind down of its operations in the Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceeding ... an unfair and untenable position.” The FCC should allow TDS Telecom to “include within its Base Period Revenues unpaid amounts billed to Halo Wireless, Inc” and thus make those payments eligible for recovery through the FCC, TDS said. “Not recovering this amount will limit TDS Telecom’s ability to deploy additional network and improve its existing network so that more of its customers can receive broadband service and existing broadband customers can benefit from greater broadband speeds."