The Kan. Corporation Commission (KCC) reaffirmed a decision this ...
The Kan. Corporation Commission (KCC) reaffirmed a decision this year that Western Wireless’ designation as an eligible telecom carrier (ETC) for universal service subsidies is restricted to fixed wireless service and doesn’t cover mobile service. The KCC was weighing…
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a reconsideration of a March order and a related July staff complaint alleging Western incorrectly counted mobile customers along with fixed wireless customers in calculating line counts used to set universal service subsidies. The KCC (Case 99-GCCZ-156-ETC) said while all details of Western’s service hadn’t been nailed down when ETC status was granted, the evidence in the case should have made clear the KCC’s intention that universal service support was limited to Western’s fixed wireless offering because its mobile service didn’t provide all the functions required by the universal service entitlement. The KCC didn’t order Western to return funds incorrectly received for mobile customers because its original March order imposing the restriction was suspended pending reconsideration, and because evidence indicated all the universal service subsidies were spent properly to improve wireless service.