Federal Communications Commission DA 14-1219 Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matters of Connect America Fund Universal Service Reform – Mobility Fund Petitions for Waiver of Windy City Cellular, LLC and Adak Eagle Enterprises, LLC ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) WC Docket No. 10-90 WT Docket No. 10-208 ORDER Adopted: August 21, 2014 Released: August 21, 2014 By the Acting Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, and the Chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau: 1. By this Order, the Wireline Competition Bureau and the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (collectively, Bureaus) approve limited, interim relief from certain Commission rules governing high-cost universal service support, to provide Adak Eagle Enterprises, LLC (AEE) and Windy City Cellular, LLC (WCC) with limited, additional, interim support. 1 Specifically, the Bureaus extend further limited, interim fixed support in the amount of $33,276 for AEE and $40,104 for WCC monthly, beginning August 2014, for, whichever comes first, a period of no longer than six months or until the Bureaus and/or the Commission complete review of the companies’ Petition for Reconsideration and/or Application for Review, respectively, of the Bureaus’ AEE/WCC Denial Order. 2 The support will be provided pursuant to the same terms and conditions as were stipulated in the AEE/WCC Denial Order. 3 2. IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to the authority contained in sections 4(i), 4(j), 5 and 254 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. §§ 154(i), 154(j), 155, and 254, sections 0.91, 0.131, 0.291, 0.331, and 1.3 of the Commission’s rules, 47 C.F.R. §§ 0.91, 0.131, 0.291, 0.331, and 1.3, and paragraph 544 of the USF/ICC Transformation Order, 4 FCC 11-161, that the Universal Service Administrative Company SHALL MAKE payment to Adak Eagle Enterprises, LLC and Windy City Cellular, LLC, in accordance with the amount, terms, and conditions described herein. 1 Adak Eagle Enterprises, LLC and Windy City Cellular, LLC; Petitions for Waiver of Certain High-Cost Universal Service Rules,WC Docket No. 10-90, WT Docket No. 10-208, Order, 28 FCC Rcd 10194, 10211-12, paras. 48-50 (Wireless Tel. Bur./Wireline Comp. Bur. 2013) (AEE/WCC Denial Order). 2 Id. See Adak Eagle Enterprises, LLC & Windy City Cellular, LLC, Petition for Reconsideration, WC Docket No. 10-90, WT Docket No. 10-208 (filed Aug. 14, 2013) (Petition for Reconsideration); Adak Eagle Enterprises, LLC & Windy City Cellular, LLC, Application for Review, WC Docket No. 10-90, WT Docket No. 10-208 (filed Aug. 14, 2013) (Application for Review). 3 See AEE/WCC Denial Order, 28 FCC Rcd at 10211-12, paras. 48-50. 4 Connect America Fund et al., WC Docket No. 10-90 et al., Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 26 FCC Rcd 17663, 17842, para. 544 (2011), pets. for review denied sub nom. In re FCC 11-161, 753 F.3d 1015 (10 th Cir. 2014). Federal Communications Commission DA 14-1219 2 3. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, pursuant to section 1.102(b)(1) of the Commission’s rules, 47 C.F.R. § 1.102(b)(1), this Order SHALL BE EFFECTIVE upon release. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Carol E. Mattey Acting Chief Wireline Competition Bureau Roger C. Sherman Chief Wireless Telecommunications Bureau