Coral Wireless Asking FCC to Overturn USF Decision
Coral Wireless asked the FCC to overturn a decision by the Internal Audit Division of the Universal Service Administrative Company to recover universal service support from Coral based on a finding that a certain number of the reported lines were…
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not revenue producing. The carrier reported on a series of meetings at the FCC in filings in docket 05-337, posted by the FCC Monday. The Wireline Bureau rejected Coral’s arguments. Coral could not have been providing telecom services with the lines at issue “because Coral's terms and conditions permitted, but did not require,” Coral to reroute nonemergency calls to Coral's customer care center during the 60-day period preceding disconnection for non-payment, the filing said. The ruling could create “unintended harm,” Coral said. “Unless the Order is reversed, any service provider will be able to evade regulation as a common carrier merely by including in its terms and conditions a provision that gives the provider the right, but not the obligation, to route calls to locations other than the dialed telephone number.”