The American Cable Association recommended several capabilities be added to the Connect...
The American Cable Association recommended several capabilities be added to the Connect America Fund cost model (http://xrl.us/boaeu7). It should provide the ability to separate operating and capital expenditures in the reporting model; include or exclude “telco served” locations with a…
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new reporting toggle; and exclude capital expenditures for all locations that are “telco served;” provide for inclusion of existing download and upload speed data for each geographic area from the national broadband map. ACA also sought a toggle to exclude Alaska from the calculations; a new summary report that shows expected annual capital expenditure cash flows by asset category for each year; and new fields in the support model detail report indicating which census blocks were previously eligible for USF support. The additions would facilitate more detailed analysis and better modeling transparency, ACA said. The model helps calculate USF costs for broadband that gets USF funds.