Provider certification record

West Carolina Communications, LLC

Listed

Identity

Legal business name: West Carolina Communications, LLC
Doing-business-as: WCTEL West Carolina Tel
Foreign Voice Service Provider: No
Business address: Hwy 28 By-Pass, PO Box 610, Abbeville SC 29620
Filing contact: Troy Mack
Network Operations Manager · Operations
troy.mack@wctel.com
(864) 446-9231
Hwy 28 By-Pass Abbeville SC 29620
United States of America
Principals, Affiliates, Subsidiaries, and Parent Companies: Wes McAllister is the President of West Carolina Communications, LLC (“WCC”). Chris Townson serves as CEO of WCC. Chris Townson has Managing Control of WCC and its wholly owned subsidiary, WC Fiber, LLC, a South Carolina member-managed limited liability company. WCC is wholly owned by its parent company, West Carolina Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc.

Provider role(s): Voice service provider
STIR/SHAKEN implementation: Role Implementation
Voice service provider Partial
Overall Partial
Exemption rules: West Carolina Communications, LLC,(WCC) Operating Company Number 5872, is eligible for the continuing extension of the STIR SHAKEN implementation deadline as a small voice service provider (§64.6304 (a)(2) that has non-IP portions within its network §64.6304(d). WCC provides local service to fewer than 100,000 voice subscriber lines. The majority of customers are served on the non-IP portions of WCC’s network which relies on technology that cannot initiate, maintain, carry, process, and terminate SIP calls. To meet the non-IP network criteria for the continuing STIR SHAKEN extension (§ 64.6303 (a)(2)), WCC is a member of NTCA which participates on the ATIS Non-IP taskforce working group that developed the (ATIS Solutions) non-IP call authentication solutions. NTCA is serving as WCC’s third party representative on the ATIS Non-IP taskforce working group.

Role	Implementation
Voice service provider	Partial
Overall	Partial

Date	Event	Detail / diff
2026-02-06	New	Initial certification filed and added to database.