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CCA: FCC Can't Rely on Current Broadband Maps for 5G Award Funds

Using “inaccurate broadband maps that are still being pressure tested” isn't a reasonable approach to a proposed 5G Fund, the Competitive Carriers Association said in a filing at the FCC posted Monday in docket 20-32. “Despite the Commission’s efforts in…

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this area, the evidence available to the Commission refutes any notion that the current broadband maps are reliable or accurate,” CCA said. Any rules based on the maps would be “contrary to the Commission’s statutory obligations under the Communications Act and the Administrative Procedure Act, unmoored from the record, and in conflict with the Commission’s own policy goals,” the group warned.