Excluding satellite broadband from the Connect America Fund would inflate...
Excluding satellite broadband from the Connect America Fund would inflate the fund by as much as $21 billion, said ViaSat and its subsidiary WildBlue in a filing at the FCC. The filing was on the universal service fund proceeding in…
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docket 10-90 and is separate from comments the companies filed with other satellite broadband providers in the docket (CD April 20 p5). The ViaSat filing includes a study that says exclusion of satellite broadband providers from bidding on serving regions would eliminate competitive pressures and deny “the economies of scale needed for satellite providers to extend coverage” to the highest cost areas, “ultimately forcing the Commission to subsidize much more expensive terrestrial providers in those areas. The FCC “should correct course to ensure that it can leverage all the substantial benefits that next-generation satellite broadband can deliver,” the filing said.