Nebraska officials plan to seek a declaratory ruling from the FCC...
Nebraska officials plan to seek a declaratory ruling from the FCC on whether the state can require Vonage and other VoIP companies to contribute to Nebraska’s universal service fund, Nebraska Public Utilities Commission chair Ann Boyle said Friday. That…
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day, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused a Nebraska request that the full court hear the state’s appeal of a lower court’s rebuff of the universal service charge. “We were not surprised by this,” Boyle said. “We always had assumed that we'd go to the FCC, but we didn’t want Vonage saying that we hadn’t exhausted all possible remedies.” The filing could come this week, and will be supported by the state of Kansas, Boyle told us.