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Universal Service Fund support “helped the company build hundreds of...

Universal Service Fund support “helped the company build hundreds of cell sites and deliver high-quality services to many rural areas that have been unserved or underserved since the inception of cellular service twenty years ago,” Cellular South representatives said during…

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a meeting with FCC staff. It also discussed the “difficulties inherent in a competitive auction mechanism” for distributing universal service support and possible alternatives, including “using a model to establish an amount of support for high-cost areas, which would be available to any carrier with the ability to serve and capture customers,” the company said in an ex parte filing.