NTCA, ACA Spar With USTelecom Over RDOF Performance Speeds at Higher Tiers
America’s Communications Association and NTCA urged the FCC to reject a request to lower the proposed 100/20 Mbps tier in its upcoming Rural Digital Opportunity Fund to 100/10. "The commission will not achieve the objective of reasonable comparability" under USF…
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standards "by cutting in half the upload speed for one of the highest performance tiers from the previous auction to a level that is less than 25 percent of the average upload speed today," said the groups in a letter Monday for docket 19-126. USTelecom filed several ex parte letters on the RDOF docket, including one Friday. Fiber-to-the-home "should be supported but the commission must strike the right balance to cover more rural American locations with speeds well in excess of the baseline," it said: Adding a 50/5 Mbps tier "would allow providers to serve broad geographic areas with speeds twice the baseline" and adjusting the upload requirement to 100/10 "would cut the cost of service by half, freeing up more funding for more broadband across rural America."