The FCC fined OCMC Inc. $1.13 million for not paying into the Uni...
The FCC fined OCMC Inc. $1.13 million for not paying into the Universal Service Fund (USF). Seeking a reduced penalty, the operator services provider and telecom reseller called the sanction “inequitable” given its financial straits. The FCC rejected that…
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claim, saying USF worksheets from OCMC show “its gross revenues are in the tens of millions of dollars and have been for several years.” OCMC “willfully and repeatedly violated our rules,” the FCC said. Last year, when issued a notice of apparent liability (NAL), the company owed more than $2 million to USF, the FCC said. OCMC made no USF payments in 2 of the 12 months since the NAL and only partial payments in 7 of those 12 months, the FCC said.