Connect America Fund resources can be more efficiently used by...
Connect America Fund resources can be more efficiently used by cable providers to provide high-speed broadband service to rural areas, counsel for the American Cable Association reported telling FCC officials at a meeting Thursday (http://xrl.us/bmyv8k). Barring pole-attachment or right-of-way disputes,…
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broadband projects can generally be completed within less than a year, and it should take no longer than two years to build out any census tract, the ex parte filing said. Therefore, the commission “should not inefficiently allocate its limited CAF resources to providers that require three years to deploy 4 Mbps/1 Mbps broadband service and five years to deploy 6 Mbps/1.5 Mbps service to some locations when there are other providers ready, willing and able to deploy in less than two years networks with much faster speeds which meet actual customer demands,” the ACA said.