Active bombs dot the Alaskan landscape, and removing...
Active bombs dot the Alaskan landscape, and removing those munitions could depend on the FCC figuring out what to do about Adak Eagle Enterprises and its subsidiary Windy City Cellular, the telcos told the FCC Wednesday (http://bit.ly/1ebtcrq). The companies’ interim…
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per-line subsidy ended at the end of January, and they have heard nothing from the agency about “next steps” or “a further extension of interim relief,” they said. “AEE and WCC remain at an operational standstill, with deteriorating assets and a decimated workforce.” Adak Eagle and Windy City had asked for waivers of the FCC’s rule limiting per-month, per-line support to $250. The waiver requests weren’t granted (CD July 17 p14). Now the companies don’t know what to tell customers who ask whether their voice and broadband service will continue to be available, they said. This could have an explosive effect, the companies said: “Adak Island is saturated with active bombs dating back to World War II. As part of the three-year process to clean up these munitions, the next Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team will arrive on Adak Island in April. The EODT will need the broadband and voice services provided by AEE and WCC to support its bomb search, detonation, and removal work on the island,” the companies said. “Without a positive decision from the [Wireless and Wireline] Bureaus, however, the companies will not be able to continue providing these critical services to support the work of the EODT."