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FCC Wireline Bureau Denies 2 Petitions to Revise CAF Broadband Loop Support Filings

The FCC Wireline Bureau denied two petitions from Colo Telephone and South Canaan Telephone seeking waivers to revise their Connect America Fund broadband loop support filings. Both companies sought a waiver of the Dec. 31 deadline to file data needed…

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to calculate a carrier's CAF BLS amount. The order, posted Tuesday in docket 10-90, said both companies "failed to demonstrate good cause." The bureau found that the telcos' arguments on the "significance of the support amount" to their broadband operations compared with the "insignificance of the amount to the total amount of BLS payments" were "equally unpersuasive."