Quintillion Asks FCC to Update Bidding Rules for E-rate, RHC
Quintillion Subsea Operations asked the FCC to revise the competitive bidding process for its rural healthcare and E-rate programs to give competitive carriers more opportunity to receive funds to provide broadband to schools, libraries and hospitals in Alaska, it said…
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in docket 17-310 posted Tuesday. Executives met last week with an aide to Chairman Ajit Pai, Wireline Deputy Bureau Chief Trent Harkrader and other Wireline officials to share analysis that showed a single carrier receives 75 percent of the funding in Alaska from the two USF programs. Quintillion proposes the FCC extend the review period of service providers from 28 to 90 days, or at least 60 days, to "allow all service providers appropriate time to evaluate and design cost-effective solutions to service requests."