The FCC Wireline Bureau is seeking comment on...
The FCC Wireline Bureau is seeking comment on a petition by Navajo Pillars Telecommunications for designation as an eligible telecom carrier and to receive waivers of several FCC rules, it said in a public notice Thursday (http://bit.ly/16pcBkq). The telco seeks…
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a waiver of the commission’s study area boundary rules to modify a current Frontier study area in order to create a new study area. It also seeks “immediate access” to high-cost loop support and interstate common line support, the public notice said. It wants a waiver of the definition of “telephone company” to let it become a member of the National Exchange Carrier Association and “immediately participate in NECA pools and tariffs,” the notice said. It also wants a five-year waiver of the cap on interstate originating and terminating rates, intrastate terminating rates, and the transition path for those rates as set forth in the commission’s rules. And it wants a five-year waiver of the rule limiting reimbursable capital and operating expenses for high-cost loop support. “Given the complexities of the issues raised in the Petition, the Bureau finds that the Petition is inappropriate for streamlined treatment, and should be subject to further analysis and review,” the bureau said. Comments in WC docket 10-90 are due Dec. 2, replies Dec. 16.