CLEC Says Texas Owes $7.3M More in USF Payments
Making one monthly Texas USF payment to AMA TechTel Communications doesn’t satisfy a court order to pay full amounts owed from Dec. 1, 2021, the CLEC said Monday at the 3rd District Texas Court of Appeals in Austin. Texas disagreed…
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last week it must pay retroactively to make up the difference of reduced payments (see 2207080032). Texas tries to “preempt an inquiry into what this Court’s order commands,” responded AMA in case 03-21-00597-CV. “They have failed on the facts and the law.” The Texas Public Utility Commission paid $1.34 million, but the full amount owed, dating back to December, is about $8.59 million, said AMA. The PUC is scheduled to consider a TUSF assessment item at its Thursday meeting.