Verizon Asks FCC to Reverse Change to Mobility Fund Rules
Verizon asked the FCC to revoke an April change in the Mobility Fund challenge process rules by the Wireless and Wireline bureaus (see 1805020064). The bureaus increased the buffer radius from 250 meters to 400 meters, Verizon said. The revised…
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radius “will allow challengers to successfully challenge a one square kilometer area with as few as two speed test points,” Verizon said in docket 10-208. The company said the revised challenge process could “result in widespread false positives, i.e., presumptively successful challenges of large areas that are in fact well-served by 4G LTE, particularly if providers cherry-pick test points with an aim of minimizing actual coverage.”