Re: Tax Hike for Rail?
Part of it was Sandwich Island Communications' filing for a waiver to allow High Cost Loop phone service on DHHL lands and that Verizon was fighting it because they were given the go ahead by the State to provide statewide telephone service and that included DHHL lands.
How it relates to this topic is the way phone service is partially subsidized by Federal grant monies to help areas where phone service would be cost prohibitive due to the small pool of subscribers. Miulang speculates that although Honolulu pays the brunt of Verizon's phone service statewide, the outer islands benefit from Honolulu's deep pockets. But does this waiver make that speculation moot? I don't know.
Originally posted by Aaron S
Part of it was Sandwich Island Communications' filing for a waiver to allow High Cost Loop phone service on DHHL lands and that Verizon was fighting it because they were given the go ahead by the State to provide statewide telephone service and that included DHHL lands.
How it relates to this topic is the way phone service is partially subsidized by Federal grant monies to help areas where phone service would be cost prohibitive due to the small pool of subscribers. Miulang speculates that although Honolulu pays the brunt of Verizon's phone service statewide, the outer islands benefit from Honolulu's deep pockets. But does this waiver make that speculation moot? I don't know.
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