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Wireline Bureau Denies Petition on USF Government-Only Exemption

The FCC Wireline Bureau dismissed and denied SES Government Solutions' petition for reconsideration of a 2017 order clarifying that the USF's government-only exemption applied only to contractors "providing service directly and exclusively to government and public safety entities and does…

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not apply to subcontractors," in an order on reconsideration Wednesday in docket 06-122. Expanding the exemption "would defeat the narrow purpose of the exemption and be detrimental to the stability of the fund," the order said.