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Dell Telephone Cooperative will have to provide more information if...

Dell Telephone Cooperative will have to provide more information if it wants a waiver of several USF rules, the FCC Wireline Bureau said in a letter Tuesday (http://xrl.us/bn2tvg). Bureau Chief Julie Veach posed 11 questions requesting additional details on employee…

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salaries, marketable securities, life insurance and patronage refunds. “The Bureau needs to better understand Dell’s operations” to determine whether “good cause” exists to grant the waivers, it said. The West Texas co-op seeks a waiver of the $250 per line per month cap, the rule limiting reimbursable capital and operating expenses applied to high-cost loop support (HCLS), and rules limiting recovery of corporate operations expenses applied to HCLS and interstate common line support (CD July 12 p7).