The NTCA called on the FCC to grant Citizens Tel...
The NTCA called on the FCC to grant Citizens Tel Cooperative a waiver after the small Virginia-based telco missed an Oct. 3 deadline to certify the Universal Service Fund monies it received will be used “for the provision, maintenance, and…
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upgrading of facilities and services for which support is intended.” The company maintains the employee who was supposed to submit the filing didn’t until Oct. 6. “Citizens has demonstrated in its Petition good cause to grant the waiver and that the waiver, in this situation, is in the public interest,” NTCA said (http://xrl.us/bmpnx7). “There is no pattern of abuse, nor any intent to defraud. It is readily apparent that the missed reporting deadline was the result of an internal mistake. Further, once the mistake was identified, the certification was promptly submitted and immediate steps were taken both to rectify the problem as well as to implement new internal procedures to ensure future compliance."