CARRIERS WOULD REJECT USF SUPPORT FOR GLOBALSTAR RESELLER

摘要

Rural wireline carriers want the FCC to overturn Texas?designation of a Globalstar reseller, DialToneServices (DTS), as an eligible telecom carrier qualified for universal service subsidies. 揃ecause DTS owns no network transmission and routing facilities, but provides supported services wholly through resale?the Tex. PUC 搗iolated?the Communications Act, said Alenco Communications, Big Bend Telephone, Dell Telephone Coop., Riviera Telephone, Valley Telephone Coop., Tex. Telephone Assn., and the Tex. Statewide Telephone Coop., in a petition filed March 5 at the FCC. The FCC complaint tees up the issue of satellite companies receiving universal- service subsidies, said Carolyn Roddy of the Satellite Industry Assn.