FCC Wireline Bureau Finalizes Broadband Data for Rate-of-Return CAF Cost Model
The FCC Wireline Bureau finalized broadband coverage data for a cost model in a new USF mechanism that rate-of-return telcos can opt into to receive Connect America Fund support pursuant to a commission March 31 overhaul (see 1603300065). The bureau…
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concluded a streamlined challenge process for the voluntary Alternative Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM), said an order in docket 10-90 listed in Tuesday's Daily Digest. "The Bureau is making the necessary adjustments in A-CAM in order to make final calculations of the offer of model-based support to rate-of-return carriers and will shortly release the Public Notice summarizing offer amounts and associated deployment obligations, which will trigger the 90-day deadline for carriers to indicate their intent to elect model-based support," the order said. "In this proceeding we received 146 comments, containing 273 requests to change reported A-CAM coverage data. Following our review of each filing on its merits, today we grant 80 requests and deny 73 requests. We decline to act on 124 requests that request changes that are administratively infeasible or unnecessary to make. We modify the A-CAM coverage data in the model accordingly, as described more fully" in the rest of the order. The disposition of each request is listed in an appendix.