More RLECs Ask FCC to OK Additional USF Support for A-CAM Recipients This Year
Rural telcos from seven more states urged the FCC by year-end to approve increased USF Alternative Connect America Model (A-CAM) funding up to $200 per month per eligible customer location for broadband deployment. "We are ready, willing and able to…
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meet" additional broadband deployment duties, said a letter posted Monday from six Alabama RLEC recipients of A-CAM support. They said the increased funding would allow them to guarantee 25/3 Mbps data speed to almost 6 percent more rural customers and 10/1 Mbps service to more than another 6 percent. Similar letters were posted in docket 10-90 in recent days from carriers in Arizona, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington state and Wisconsin. Previously, RLECs from Georgia, Minnesota and Tennessee filed such letters (see 1711290027 and 1711240018).