Chattanooga Utility Hopes To Resolve Rural Broadband Experiment Issue With FCC
The Electric Power Board of Chattanooga hopes to "work with the FCC to resolve" a problem that led the Wireline Bureau to remove the Tennessee utility's rural broadband experiment from further funding consideration, an EPB spokeswoman told us Wednesday: "It…
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seems that wires got crossed in terms of deadline expectations." The bureau denied an EPB petition for a waiver and extension of a June 2, 2015, deadline to provide proof that it had been designated as a USF "eligible telecom carrier" for all rural areas covered by its broadband experiment, which had been provisionally selected to receive $710,147 in commission funding (see 1602020034). An agency spokesman didn't comment.