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U.S. Cellular representatives asked FCC staff to “articulate an appropriate waiver...

U.S. Cellular representatives asked FCC staff to “articulate an appropriate waiver standard” and “explain how U.S. Cellular meets those standards,” at a meeting on why the Wireline Bureau denied the company’s request for a waiver of Universal Service Fund high-cost…

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filing deadlines, said an ex parte filing. U.S. Cellular noted that the FCC looks at a number of factors, including extenuating circumstances, severe hardship, immediate remedying of omission, adoption of safeguards against recurrence and a history of compliance. “Applying the multi-factor test, the facts set forth in U.S. Cellular’s waiver petition easily meet the FCC’s standard,” the carrier said.