FCC Staff Deny Etheric RDOF ETC Petition

The FCC Wireline Bureau and Office of Economics and Analytics denied Etheric Communication's petition for reconsideration of the bureau's decision to deny and dismiss as moot the provider's request for waiver of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction eligible telecom carrier designation deadline. The order posted Tuesday in docket 19-126 said it would "not serve the public interest to delay action on Etheric’s long-form application indefinitely while Etheric considered and pursued an appeal" of the California Public Utilities Commission's decision to deny its ETC request.