LTD Asks State to Reconsider Designation Denial
LTD Broadband asked the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission to reconsider denying the company’s designation as an eligible telecom carrier. Company CEO Corey Hauer told us in February that LTD would challenge (see 2202220060). The PUC exceeded “the plain language…
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of its administrative rules and impos[ed] requirements for ETC status on LTD that it has never applied to any other applicant,” and the decision included multiple erroneous factual findings, LTD said Wednesday in docket TC21-001. Also, the commission “found that LTD lacked the ability to deploy its network because, at least in part, LTD's estimated construction costs for fiber-to-the-home deployment were understated, it said. “LTD has in fact deployed fiber-to-the-home network at a lower cost than even its estimates since the evidentiary hearing in this matter concluded.”