Mediacom executives met with aides to each FCC commissioner this...
Mediacom executives met with aides to each FCC commissioner this week, as well as the chief of the Wireline Bureau, to argue that Connect America Fund money should not go to areas where the cable operator already sells broadband services,…
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an ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bnbseo). CAF funds should be limited to “substantially unserved areas,” the operator said, not to areas where unsubsidized competitors like Mediacom already provide broadband service. Mediacom discussed its fiber buildout to cell towers, which it said enables fiber-based services for many rural communities and businesses. Funding such areas with CAF money would be “inefficient” and lead to “oversubsidization,” thereby devaluing current privately funded facilities investment, and providing disincentives to future such investment, the company said.