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LTD Seeks RDOF ETC Partial Recon Petition

LTD Broadband asked the FCC Wireline Bureau to reconsider its order denying LTD's waiver request to obtain eligible telecom carrier designation in California for its winning Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction bids, said a petition for partial reconsideration…

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posted Thursday in docket 19-126. The bureau's order "[leaves] out critical facts concerning serious professional misconduct and deception by LTD’s former counsel before the FCC and the CPUC that LTD unknowingly submitted into the record of the waiver proceeding," it said about the timing of its ETC application being filed with the California Public Utilities Commission (see 2106230047). LTD said it shouldn't be held liable for its former counsel's actions because it "innocently hired him to perform legal services and could not have foreseen that he would behave improperly." Kristopher Twomey, LTD's then-counsel, didn't comment.