Viya Tells FCC Staff How to Help US Virgin Islands Network Resilience
Virgin Islands Telephone recommendations for network resiliency and redundancy via USF funding include weighting "core network miles more heavily than individual end-user connections" and dealing with such connections based on locations served, not aggregate miles. "Core network miles affect potentially…
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thousands of customers; stormhardening them is more valuable than hardening individual customer lines/connections," said the telco, doing business as Viya, on how to vet participants in a proposed Connect USVI Fund auction. A filing posted Thursday in docket 18-143 reported on meetings with an aide to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and with Wireline Bureau staff. Commissioners are tentatively scheduled to vote Sept. 26 on rules to allocate $950 million for the Uniendo a Puerto Rico Fund and the Connect USVI Fund to help rebuild networks in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands after 2017 hurricanes (see 1909040028).