Wireline Bureau Grants Petitions for Waivers of 2018 HUBB Deadline
The FCC Wireline Bureau granted several petitions for waivers of the March 1, 2018, deadline for uploading geocoded location data to Universal Service Administrative Co.'s high cost universal broadband (HUBB) portal, in an order Monday in docket 08-71 (see 1906120027).…
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The bureau called the waivers warranted "because the petitioners all describe confusion with the new HUBB filing requirements," and they acknowledged "there may have been technical difficulties with accessing or certifying information in the newly deployed HUBB." Because eligible telecom carriers should be familiar with HUBB procedures by now, the bureau said, it's unlikely to grant similar petitions in the future. Waivers went to Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Fremont Telcom, Cascade Utilities, Trans-Cascades Telephone, Rio Virgin Telephone, Farmers Mutual Telephone, Ketchikan Public Utilities, North-Eastern Pennsylvania Telephone, Olin Telephone, Interstate Telecommunications Cooperative, Manawa Telephone, Sand Creek Communications, Telephone Electronics, Westphalia Telephone and West River Telecom.