FairPoint Communications and Windstream separately withdrew their requests...
FairPoint Communications and Windstream separately withdrew their requests for waivers of some high-cost universal service rules, in letters sent to the FCC Tuesday. FairPoint had sought a waiver of the requirement that recipients of Connect America Fund Phase I money…
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deploy broadband to one unserved location for each $775 subsidy it received (CD Sept 12 p14). “The relief sought by FairPoint in the Petition largely has been addressed by the Commission’s release of additional incremental support in the second round of Connect America Fund Phase I,” said the telco (http://bit.ly/153p6xV). Windstream had sought a waiver that would have let it elect nearly $60 million more in 2012 Phase I support. In addition to a waiver of the $775-per-location rule, it also asked permission to use the funds to deploy second-mile fiber (CD July 25 p3). In light of “revisions to the CAF Phase I incremental support program” in an order adopted in May, “Windstream no longer requires the waiver,” it said Tuesday (http://bit.ly/153txZF).