Connect America Fund Phase I support should...
Connect America Fund Phase I support should be awarded “efficiently” so “scarce government resources are not wasted,” the American Cable Association told an aide to FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Thursday, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/ZUTARX). The commission should make…
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available an amount of funding that “closely matches the cost to deploy broadband in the location to be served,” ACA said. The commission should be cautious of adopting a “new and more elaborate regulatory regime” that would lower the average cost of eligible locations, or increase the amount of funding available per location, it said. The commission should “certainly not” amend its rules without “sufficient evidence” that they're “so restrictive or arbitrary that they do not meet the original objectives for the program,” ACA said. Price cap LEC filings are “largely devoid of data” justifying expansion of the areas where should be provided, increase in the amount of support, or its use for deployment of second-mile fiber, ACA said.