Extend Viya USVI Relief to Other ETCs if Granted: Broadband VI
Broadband VI asked the FCC to establish a "formal process" for eligible telecom carriers receiving funding for at least one high-cost USF program to "seek additional funding due to unanticipated increased expenses" caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation or supply…
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chain issues, in comments posted Tuesday in docket 18-143 on Viya's request to extend its legacy high-cost funding (see 2203030071). Broadband VI didn't take a position on Viya's request, although it "does concur with Viya that unanticipated, extraordinary inflationary pressures ... have imposed unexpected and unplanned-for costs on entities providing and developing broadband service in the U.S. Virgin Islands."