Trade Law Daily is a service of Warren Communications News.

Blackburn Technologies Not Eligible for Post-Storm Support, FCC Says

The FCC Wireline Bureau rejected arguments by Blackburn Technologies, a wholesale provider operating in Puerto Rico, for a waiver of the requirement that only facilities-based providers offering voice and broadband service to end users there are eligible for post-Irma and…

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.

Maria support. Last year, the FCC adopted an order providing nearly $500 million to “expand and deploy fixed networks in order to give every American in Puerto Rico access to the same high-speed broadband service as those living on the mainland,” the bureau said in a Monday order in docket 18-143: “Based on the record before us, we find that the petitioner has not established good cause for us to deviate from the rule and, therefore, deny the requested relief.”