FCC Staff Approve Mobile Test Procedures for Puerto Rico and USVI Funds
The FCC Wireline Bureau and Office of Economics and Analytics approved parameters and a testing methodology for Bringing Puerto Rico Together Fund and the Connect USVI Fund mobile support recipients to submit network data verifying they met their deployment obligations.…
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Recipients may use alternative testing procedures, subject to FCC staff approval. Submissions of drive and drone tests, which include "two tests in each sampling unit in a statistically significant sample of the network coverage areas," should be made through the broadband data collection mobile verification module, said a public notice Tuesday. Final network coverage data must be submitted between Dec. 1 and Jan. 30. All recipients will also have 60 calendar days, beginning "the day immediately following the day OEA provides the test sample to a recipient," to complete and submit network performance testing regardless of the methodology.