If eligible areas for the Connect America Fund...
If eligible areas for the Connect America Fund Phase I program are expanded to include households without 4/1 Mbps service, the amount of support per location “should decrease significantly” below the $775-per-household given in the first round of the program,…
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the American Cable Association told the FCC in a letter Friday (http://bit.ly/Ya6BtY). That’s because the average cost of the locations without 4/1 service that price-cap LECs could serve is “well below” the average cost of locations without 760/200 kbps service, it said. Using the current version of the commission’s Connect America Cost Model, ACA found that the expanded locations should require only 60 percent of the 2012 support amount, or $468 per location, it said. A circulating draft order would extend eligibility to additional homes for an amount somewhat lower than $775, agency officials told us (CD April 25 p1).