An industry group led by USTelecom discussed the need for...
An industry group led by USTelecom discussed the need for a model that would “accurately identify the costs of building and operating broadband networks in high-cost areas throughout the country.” The discussion came in a meeting with Wireline Bureau Chief…
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Sharon Gillett and others at the FCC, said an ex parte filing. “Such a model could be used to identify areas that are high-cost to deliver broadband, some of which may be currently unserved, and to determine amounts of support to ensure that broadband services of a specific nature are available in those areas.” The industry representatives also discussed the advantages of a “greenfield network build” approach versus “the National Broadband Plan’s network augmentation build approach, which was used to size the cost of extending currently existing networks to unserved areas,” the filing said. Verizon, AT&T, CenturyLink, Frontier and Windstream representatives took part in the meeting, along with consultant CostQuest which does economic models for the telecom industry.