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Officials said the public service commission would ask AT&T, a Mississippi state multinational telecommunications organization, to provide a record of the work it promised to do to increase broadband access in the state after the company paid nearly 300 300 million to the company.
Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley has signed a subpoena for AT&T records relating to the company’s claim that the Connect America Fund will provide Internet service to 133,000 locations in the state through the Federal Program for Extended Broadband in Rural America.
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Subpoi’s AT&T has demanded the production of documents showing the actual number of subscribers to the stationary wireless service where the company claims to have provided the service. It also requests the number of complaints filed with the company by the service users and the number of residents applying for that stable wireless service based on AT & T’s claims that it is available and later decided not to be in the covered area.
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Prisley said that before giving the investigator a subpoena, Commissioner Presley had informally asked AT&T for documentation regarding the actual number of locations that would benefit from the ma 280 million project, and AT&T had refused, Presley said. Some of the items in today’s subpoint are part of data requests filed by public utilities staff that have been ignored by AT&T.
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“AT&T has opened up જાહેર 283,780,632 of public money with a promise to expand Internet service, yet they refuse to answer the regulator’s most basic questions surrounding the use of these dollars and the actual success of their plans,” Presley said. It is clear to me that the position of AT&T is to take as much public money as possible and answer as few questions as possible from regulators. “
An AT&T spokesman said Friday night that the company adheres to the laws and requirements of the Connect America Fund.
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In Mississippi, spokesman Jim Greer said, “We are confident that we will surpass the final CAF II target of providing high-speed access to 133,000 rural Mississippi homes by the end of this year.”
