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Arkansas-based RLEC Walnut Hill Telephone asked the FCC to reverse...

Arkansas-based RLEC Walnut Hill Telephone asked the FCC to reverse a Universal Service Administrative Co. decision to withhold nearly $448,000 in future universal service payments, the FCC said in a public notice Monday (http://xrl.us/bmn8de). USAC ordered the future payments to…

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be withheld after a 2007 audit found that the company had improperly used high-cost Universal Service Fund cash to lease company cars, Walnut Hill said in its appeal (http://xrl.us/bmn8fa). The FCC has previously allowed companies waivers of accounting rules because they would have to incur unnecessary expenses otherwise, Walnut Hill said. Comments on Walnut Hill’s petition are due Feb. 8, replies Feb. 23.