AT&T’s voluntary commitment to offer wireless broadband service...
AT&T’s voluntary commitment to offer wireless broadband service to 13 million new customers as a result of planned DirecTV acquisition “precedes any election it might make to access Connect America Fund Phase II support to make broadband service available in…
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high cost areas,” the American Cable Association told FCC Wireline Bureau officials Wednesday, an ex parte filing posted Friday in docket 10-90 said (http://bit.ly/1oPdbTy). AT&T has said it’s one of the concessions it will make as part of its DirecTV acquisition (CD June 18 p5). The FCC should be ready for issues that might arise if it turns out some locations included in the merger commitment might also be high-cost areas where AT&T is eligible to receive support, ACA said. The association commended the bureau for making “great strides” in developing a cost model that accurately estimates the cost of a modern network, but criticized insufficiently precise inputs for the cost of money and the take rate to estimate revenue.