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Representatives from Dickey Rural Telephone Cooperative met with FCC Wireline...

Representatives from Dickey Rural Telephone Cooperative met with FCC Wireline Bureau officials and an aide to Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel last week to discuss how the company might “salvage” its efforts to continue broadband service “in light of USF reforms and…

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the resulting curtailment of universal support that DRTC had been receiving,” according to an ex parte notice (http://xrl.us/bm9ph8). Dickey will have to suspend its free Internet classes and “Rural PC Project,” which subsidizes computers for those in Dickey’s rural service area, the coop said, “thus ending ... successful broadband adoption initiatives."