AT&T, ITTA, USTelecom, WISPA Urge FCC to Delay July 1 CAF Broadband Testing Start
Many asked the FCC to delay broadband performance testing by Connect America Fund recipients, scheduled to begin July 1. AT&T, ITTA and the Wireless ISP Association discussed with an aide to Chairman Ajit Pai a petition for reconsideration of CAF…
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performance metrics filed by USTelecom, WISPA and ITTA. Despite "productive meetings," the associations remain "concerned by the mismatch between the Order’s treatment of latency vs. speed testing as well as the harsh compliance framework adopted for even minor misses of latency and speed targets," filed AT&T, ITTA and WISPA in docket 10-90 Monday, noting USTelecom agrees. "Given the work still to be done to finalize the performance metric rules, we strongly urged the Commission to delay" testing. The order "adopts a reasonable one-test-per-hour and 80/80 compliance standard for speed testing, but by contrast requires one-test-per-minute for latency and maintains the prematurely adopted 95% compliance standard," they added: Latency doesn't fluctuate "to the degree that requires such granular testing."