Midwest Energy & Communications Seeks Waiver in Rural Broadband Program
Midwest Energy & Communications wants FCC waiver of a requirement to build out to 421 locations to fulfill construction obligations stemming from a 2016 funding authorization through the Rural Broadband Experiment program because the company found that only 364 geocoded…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
locations exist in the census blocks it won through competitive bidding, per a filing posted Thursday to docket 10-90. "The number of eligible locations were determined by the Commission based on information that is now fairly outdated." Midwest said the program gives little consideration to the possibility FCC broadband mapping models overestimate the number of eligible locations.