FCC Bureau Denies 3 RLEC Waiver Bids on Model-Based CAF Support
The FCC denied three waiver requests by telcos on new rate-of-return USF rules for support carriers can receive based on an Alternative Connect America Fund broadband cost model (A-CAM). A Wireline Bureau order Wednesday in docket 10-90 denied a petition…
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from Shawnee Telephone and Moultrie Independent Telephone to waive commission decisions "to exclude census blocks served by fiber to the premises (FTTP) from the support calculations; and (2) not to make an offer of model-based support to any rate-of-return carrier that has deployed 10/1 Mbps broadband to 90 percent or more of its eligible locations in the relevant state." The bureau also denied a Baraga Telephone request to waive a March 30, 2016, deadline for submitting Form 477 data used to determine a rural carrier’s percentage of broadband deployment for purposes of making an A-CAM support offer, and it denied a Clarity Telecom request to waive a deadline for submitting Form 477 data used to identify census blocks served by FTTP or cable technologies.