Wireline Bureau Denies Petition on USF Government-Only Exemption

The FCC Wireline Bureau dismissed and denied SES Government Solutions' petition for reconsideration of a 2017 order clarifying that the USF's government-only exemption applied only to contractors "providing service directly and exclusively to government and public safety entities and does not apply to subcontractors," in an order on reconsideration Wednesday in docket 06-122. Expanding the exemption "would defeat the narrow purpose of the exemption and be detrimental to the stability of the fund," the order said.