Connect America Fund, WC Docket No. 10-90, A National Broadband Plan for Our Future, GN Docket No. 09-51, Establishing Just and Reasonable Rates for Local Exchange Carriers, WC Docket No. 07-135, High-Cost Universal Service Support, WC Docket No. 05-337, Developing a Unified Intercarrier Compensation Regime, CC Docket No. 01-92, Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, CC Docket No. 96-45, Lifeline and Link-Up, WC Docket No. 03-109, Universal Service – Mobility Fund, WT Docket No. 10-208, Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 26 FCC Rcd. 17663 (2011) (“2011 USF/ICC Transformation Order” or “Transformation Order”).
On July 7, 2014, NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association (“NTCA”), the National Exchange Carrier Association (“NECA”), ITTA, the Eastern Rural Telecom Association (“ERTA”), WTA–Advocates for Rural Broadband, Frontier Communications Corporation, and Windstream Communications, Inc. (collectively “Petitioners”), filed an emergency petition for waiver in the above referenced proceedings.