The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau refused to reconsider a request...
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau refused to reconsider a request to review the actions of the Universal Service Administrative Co. The request came from Integrity Communications, which argued that the USAC should not have sent copies of an audit letter…
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to its clients before it had a chance to respond. The audit letter said Integrity issued invoices to Texas’s San Benito Independent School District before completion of a project, violating terms of the procurement. The letter also said that Integrity would have to file a compliance plan and that the USAC wouldn’t take any action on funding requests with which Integrity was involved until the matter was resolved. In its initial review of the situation, the bureau decided USAC acted reasonably in sending the letter to other school districts. Integrity, however, said it should have had a chance to respond before the letter was sent out. In the reconsideration, Bureau Deputy Chief Carol Mattey concluded that USAC correctly followed its procedures. Although the bureau misphrased an explanation of the procedures in its initial order, it still correctly concluded that USAC had acted properly, Mattey said.