FCC Extends Allband USF Waiver Six Months
The FCC Wireline Bureau gave an interim USF waiver extension to Allband Communications Cooperative. In an order released Monday and included in Tuesday's Daily Digest, the bureau extended by six months Allband's waiver to continue to receive the lesser of…
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high-cost USF support based on its actual costs or the annualized total high-cost support that it received in the first six months of 2012. The bureau gave Allband a three-year waiver in July 2012, and in December 2014 Allband filed a petition for a further, 12-year waiver. In June of this year, the bureau extended the original waiver until the earlier of Dec. 31 or until action is taken on its 12-year waiver request.