Frontier Seeks FCC OK of More CAF Phase I Support, Discusses Phase II Auction
Frontier Communications asked the FCC to act expeditiously to approve its plan (see 1609080001) to offer internet access in 3,146 "unserved" census blocks using Connect America Fund Phase I, Round 2 incremental broadband support. The claims of StarTouch Broadband Services…
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that it serves virtually the entire state of Washington "are not credible," the telco said in a filing posted Tuesday in docket 10-90 on a meeting with Wireline Bureau staffers. Frontier encouraged the commission to allow price-cap telcos -- before a planned CAF Phase II reverse auction of subsidies -- to identify extremely high-cost census blocks where they can guarantee they will deploy broadband/voice service. "The Commission has authorized price cap carriers to build to these census blocks" that Frontier "already built to and plans to continue building to some of these census blocks," and "customers in these census blocks would benefit from receiving service when they could otherwise be left unserved," its filing said. Citing the need for "extensive preparation," the company asked the FCC to give parties at least nine months' lead time from the time the auction's final rules are adopted before proposed broadband speed testing requirements take effect.