Small carriers fight to survive amid delayed Huawei rip-and-replace funds

Jerry Whisenhunt, general manager of Pine Telephone Company in a rural corner of Oklahoma, has some choice words about the Washington bigwigs who ordered him to rip up his mobile network but have failed to cough up the promised funding to help him replace it.

“It’s kind of a train wreck,” he said. “They’re slow as Christmas getting things done.”