Sandwich Isles Communications asked the FCC to waive new rules...
Sandwich Isles Communications asked the FCC to waive new rules setting caps on the amount of universal service cash that can be allotted per line for another decade, in a petition filed in docket 10-90. In its petition, the RLEC…
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said it needed a break from sections 54.302 of the newly adopted rules (CD Oct 28 p1) to bring high-speed broadband to native Hawaiians. Although heavily redacted, the petition said Sandwich Isles needs the waiver because of “unique circumstances and obligations placed solely” on the company by the state of Hawaii under the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920 (http://xrl.us/bmnniv). Hawaii is still trying to resettle its aboriginal population throughout the islands and it will need robust broadband to meet their needs, Sandwich Isles said. “These obligations center on deployment of needed communications infrastructure to extend broadband networks in unserved areas of the state,” the petition said. “Expansion of Hawaii’s economy throughout the ‘neighbor islands’ is essential to jobs creation and resettlement of the Hawaiian Home Lands, 98 percent of which are located outside Oahu. Only a portion of the planned home sites on the Hawaiian Home Lands have been completed and occupied.”