Syringa Wireless received conditional approval as an eligible telecommunications carrier...
Syringa Wireless received conditional approval as an eligible telecommunications carrier (ETC), the Idaho Public Utilities Commission ruled in an order Wednesday (http://xrl.us/bngrgf). “Granting Syringa Wireless conditional ETC status in those select areas in order to facilitate the deployment of broadband…
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and voice services in heretofore unserved areas in Idaho is in the public interest,” the commission said. The condition of the ETC approval is, as in other recent state decisions, based on “submitting a successful bid in the FCC’s upcoming Mobility Fund Phase I auction,” the commission said. The auction required ETC status by its submission deadline of Wednesday. The South Carolina Public Service Commission conditionally approved a carrier July 6 (CD July 9 p11) and the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission conditionally approved T-Mobile West as an ETC in an order issued July 10 for the same reason. T-Mobile West’s ETC application “completely ignores and disrespects the tribal sovereignty of the Mescalero Apache Tribe,” said Mescalero Apache Telecom, Inc. in June 25 comments filed with the commission, which requested the commission “deny T-Mobile ETC designation within the Mescalero Apache Reservation or require T-Mobile to provide service within the entire service area.” In response, the New Mexico commission granted conditional approval “based upon all of the New Mexico census blocks that will be included in the [Mobility Fund] auction, except for census blocks in the Mescalero Apache Reservation,” the commission said in its order.