Expand / A guy walks with the umbrella Outside AT&T corporate headquarters at March 13, 2020, at Dallas, Texas.
AT&T kindly told the US authorities that it fulfilled its duty to deploy broadband in greater than 133,000 places in Mississippi, state officials say.
Because 2015, AT&T has obtained over $283 million in the Federal Communications Commission’s Link America Fund to expand its own community in Mississippi. However, the Mississippi Public Service Commission (PSC) said it’s proof that AT&T’s fixed-wireless broadband isn’t readily available to all of the houses and businesses at which AT&T asserts it offers support. The PSC requested the FCC to run”a comprehensive compliance audit” of all AT&T’s claim that it has fulfilled its duty.
“Our analysis has found tangible, particular examples which reveal AT&T Mississippi has documented place addresses… as being served if, in actuality, the speeches are without support under their [Link America Fund] duties,” stated a correspondence into the FCC delivered Tuesday with three Mississippi PSC commissioners. “This blueprint of submitting false information into the USAC [the Universal Service Administrative Company, which administers the plan to the FCC’s benefit ] merits a complete compliance audit from the FCC, USAC, or whatever proper agency. We believe it’s our responsibility to alert you with the problem.”
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