Frontier Gets Wireline Bureau CAF II Deployment Waiver
The FCC gave Frontier Communications waiver of rules requiring Connect America Fund phase II recipients to deploy broadband to 80 percent of locations in a winning bid by Dec. 31, 2019, in an order in docket 10-90 and in Wednesday's…
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Daily Digest. The Wireline Bureau found "good cause to waive its interim milestone deadline" and support reductions for missing it. The telco missed deadlines due to a dispute with the Navajo Nation over right-of-way agreements in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. "We expect Frontier will continue to work diligently to reach a resolution on this issue with both [the Bureau of Indian Affairs] and the Navajo Nation and anticipate that the locations in question here will be served" in 2020, staff said.