Telcos, Rural Electrics Ask to Suspend LTD's Minn. ETC Designation
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission seeks responses by April 17 to a Wednesday motion by the Minnesota Telecom Alliance and Minnesota Rural Electric Association in a review of LTD Broadband’s eligible telecom carrier designation, Administrative Law Judge James LaFave ordered…
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Friday. And the ALJ set a telephonic prehearing conference for April 24 at 11 a.m. CST on the motion in docket 22-221. The associations asked the PUC to suspend LTD’s ETC designation until the company can show the PUC that it can meet obligations to serve about 102,000 locations. “Developments occurring since the Commission initiated this proceeding have confirmed LTD’s inability to perform its ETC obligations and heightened the risk to the public interest from allowing its expanded ETC designation to remain in effect,” the groups said. LaFave paused the commission’s LTD review in January (see 2301180038).