LTD ‘Misrepresented Facts’ in RDOF ETC Waiver: CPUC

LTD Broadband “misrepresented the facts” in its waiver request for eligible telecom carrier designation as a winning Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction bidder, the California Public Utilities Commission told the FCC in a letter posted Wednesday in docket 19-126. The CPUC said LTD didn’t file its ETC application April 26, instead June 3 after close of business. The PUC said the docket number cited in LTD’s petition didn’t exist and its ETC application “to date has not been assigned a docket number because the filing still has not been processed.” Attorney Kristopher Twomey said he sent "an original and four copies of the application to the CPUC by U.S. mail" on April 26 but "did not know that the CPUC was not accepting applications sent via U.S. mail" then, according to a supplement to LTD's petition filed Wednesday. Twomey acknowledged in the filing that the April 26 date and the docket number were incorrect, and neither LTD CEO Corey Hauer nor his attorney "had any basis to know that these statements were inaccurate."