Wireline Bureau OKs 1 RBE Petition, Denies Lake County, Minnesota
The FCC said rural broadband experiment applicant Northeast Rural Services demonstrated good cause for waiver of default rules that would have allowed Universal Service Administrative Co. to collect all disbursed funds from its program participation, in an order in Thursday's…
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Daily Digest and on docket 14-259. The Wireline Bureau directed USAC seek repayment on a study area basis. But Lake County, Minnesota, the order said, "failed to demonstrate good cause for waiver of the commission's default rules to permit it to retain a percentage of its disbursed support based on the average amount of disbursed support per location reported as served as of its 15-month milestone." It said the county permanently defaulted on its obligations. The municipality didn't comment. The locality petitioned for relinquishment of RBE status after it agreed to sell its broadband network (see 1905200043).