Dish Wireless Gets Texas ETC Designation

The Texas Public Utility Commission granted a Dish Wireless application for eligible telecom carrier (ETC) designation. Dish will be a Lifeline-only ETC in all non-rural deregulated exchanges of AT&T and Frontier Communications and several rural ILEC exchanges, said a Texas PUC order Tuesday in docket 54475. Commission staff last month recommended granting the application (see 2309200060). Dish won a similar approval in Nebraska last week (see 2310030043).