ViaSat Disputes Rural Coalition Objections to Company's CAF II Proposals
ViaSat disputed a Rural Coalition's procedural and substantive criticisms of its proposals for the FCC's Connect America Fund Phase II auction of fixed broadband subsidies (see 1706160018). It noted a suggestion that ViaSat’s input proposals constitute an untimely petition for…
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reconsideration. "To the contrary, those inputs were provided to inform the Commission’s efforts to further define the structures and procedures to be used in [the] upcoming CAF II reverse-auction -- including through the development of an auction procedures public notice," said a filing Thursday in docket 10-90. "The Commission is free to consider ViaSat’s inputs for those purposes, or any others the Commission deems suitable." The filing also contained a white paper by Paul Milgrom of Auctionomics responding to an analysis by David Salant submitted by the Rural Coalition. Milgrom called Salant's analysis "incomplete," with conclusions that "rely on incorrect statements and misleading examples."