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Jordan Soldier Valley Telephone Co. asked the FCC Wireline Bureau...

Jordan Soldier Valley Telephone Co. asked the FCC Wireline Bureau for a waiver of its Dec. 31 due date to submit a “true-up adjustment” for local switching support (http://xrl.us/bn9xby). The annual true-up process, required by the Universal Service Administrative Co.,…

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adjusts support amounts based on actual incumbent carrier data. Jordan Soldier -- a rural ILEC with 263 access lines -- said it failed to submit the 2011 true-up data because “an employee who is no longer with the company was responsible for submitting this filing.” When that employee retired in May, “his responsibilities were then spread among existing employees,” except for the duty to submit the true-up data, which “was overlooked.” Without a waiver to late-file the true-up adjustment, the telco will lose about $76,000 in recovery, it said.