FCC Releases Performance Measurement Rules for CAF Recipients
The FCC Friday released performance measurement rules for the Connect America Fund. They cover high-cost universal service support recipients, including price cap and rate-of-return carriers, rural broadband experiment support recipients, Alaska Plan carriers and CAF Phase II auction winners. The…
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order offers “high-cost support recipients that serve fixed locations three options to afford flexibility in choosing solutions to conduct required performance testing,” the FCC said in docket 10-90. Those options are using: Measuring Broadband America program infrastructure; existing network management systems and tools, or off-the-shelf testing; or provider-developed self-testing configurations. Last year, the FCC sought comment on performance measures (see 1711060055). “By providing these three options, we ensure that there is a cost-effective method for conducting testing for providers of different sizes and technological sophistication,” the FCC said. “We do not require that providers invest in and implement new internal systems; instead, providers may perform speed and latency tests with readily-available, off-the-shelf solutions or existing MBA infrastructure.” The order was released by the Wireline and Wireless bureaus and the Office of Engineering and Technology. The FCC also said Friday it will conduct a single CAF II mock auction, for all applicants listed as qualified to bid in the qualified bidders public notice, on July 18-19. “Participants will be able to use and become familiar with all features of the CAF II Bidding System that they will use during the actual bidding,” the FCC said. “The mock auction is designed so that, within several rounds of bidding, bidders will experience key auction events.”