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The FCC Wireline Bureau should quickly process Grande Communications’ appeal of a Universal Service Administrative Co. decision on its contributor audit, the telco said in a letter to the commission. Grande seeks a “reversal of USAC’s unlawful attempt to…

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collect Universal Service Fund twice on the telecommunications services sold to Grande resellers.” The telco filed the request in December and no comments have been submitted. “The lack of opposition to Grande’s appeal is significant,” the company said. Grande said it wants the appeal to include a review of the USAC’s “reclassification of a per-line local exchange fee as a federal interstate subscriber line charge” and its classification of a DSL-based Internet access service as a telecom offering.