A proposal by the Fiber to the Home Council...
A proposal by the Fiber to the Home Council to establish a gigabit communities race-to-the-top program (CD July 24 p7) drew mixed support from a rural Iowa CLEC, the Community Agency, in comments filed at the FCC Thursday (http://bit.ly/14HuJWg). The…
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group “conceptually” backs the use of rejected Connect America Fund money to support carriers willing to provide broadband service in high-cost areas. But the commission should not overlook the “smaller, more rural towns where fiber facilities are lacking” in favor of “ultra-high-speed gigabit service” in a few “select communities,” it said. The commission should consider funding “more projects of a smaller scope,” with priority going to smaller rural towns, it said. The group also opposes the FTTH proposal that funding be available to non-eligible telecom carriers. “Without ETC designation of the carriers receiving funding, the Commission would not have any way to perform meaningful oversight of the CAF funding,” it said.