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Verizon Backs 'Enhanced' ACAM Proposal

Verizon backed the Alternative Connect America Cost Model (ACAM) Broadband Coalition proposal to extend the program, per an ex parte filing Tuesday in docket 10-90 (see 2207190056). The FCC could "give rate-of-return carriers the opportunity to make an enforceable commitment…

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to provide 100/20 Mbps service" using their ACAM or Connect America Fund broadband loop support funding, Verizon said in a meeting with Wireline Bureau and Office of Economics and Analytics staff. Doing so would prevent areas subject to enforceable commitments from receiving support through the broadband, equity, access and deployment program, Verizon said. It also backed "looking to the BEAD program or other new programs, rather than the universal service fund, to meet deployment goals" in order to "mitigate increases in annual support."