Executives from Alaskan telco Adak Eagle Enterprises and...
Executives from Alaskan telco Adak Eagle Enterprises and its Windy City Cellular subsidiary urged FCC staff last week to provide a “permanent solution” to the funding issues they have sought to alleviate by seeking a waiver of a monthly $250…
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per line cap on high-cost universal service support, the companies said in an ex parte filing posted Monday in docket 10-90(http://bit.ly/1pmMl2l). Adak Eagle and Windy City have been seeking FCC reconsideration of their waiver petition, which the Wireless and Wireline bureaus denied last year (CD Aug 16 p5). Neither company can survive “absent a waiver,” they said, saying Windy City was the only cellular service available in June to Adak Island residents who had evacuated to the island’s Bering Hill while awaiting a possible tsunami. The companies also reminded the FCC that the interim funding the FCC granted them in late February -- $33,276 to Adak Eagle and $40,104 to Windy City -- would run out Thursday.