CPUC Rejects LTD Broadband Funding Claim
LTD Broadband’s claim that California wants to take Rural Digital Opportunity Fund money for itself is “100 percent ridiculous and false,” a California Public Utilities Commission spokesperson emailed. Company CEO Corey Hauer alleged that Tuesday after the CPUC rejected reconsideration…
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on denying eligible telecom carrier designation (see 2205170058). “The FCC rules for RDOF mandate that all federal funds allocated to RDOF Phase I, and not awarded in Phase I … will be held by FCC in the RDOF component of its USF funds and allocated only for RDOF Phase II,” the CPUC representative said. “No state or local government may appropriate unawarded RDOF funds for its own use. Any statement suggesting a state may do so demonstrates a fully incorrect understanding of FCC funding practice.”