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FCC Says No Challenges to FairPoint CAF I Support in 185 Virginia Census Blocks

The FCC declared a Connect America Fund Phase I challenge process concluded for 185 previously unidentified census blocks in Virginia served by Consolidated Communications' FairPoint. The commission invited challenges to determine if unsubsidized competitors served any of the 185 census…

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blocks with data speeds of at least 3 Mbps downstream and 768 kbps upstream as of April 27 (see 1804300027). "Having received no challenges, we now conclude this process and direct the Universal Service Administrative Company not to recover the support associated with the previously unidentified census blocks, to the extent that FairPoint has otherwise satisfied its deployment obligations with respect to those blocks," said a Wireline Bureau public notice in Wednesday docket 10-90.