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Comments are due Sept. 12, replies Sept. 19, on several modifications to the FCC’s Connect America Fund Phase II cost model for non-contiguous areas, said a public notice Thursday (http://bit.ly/193n5VJ). The Wireline Bureau seeks input on “the addition of the…

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capability to model costs for undersea cable connecting non-contiguous areas to the contiguous United States, plant mix values submitted by Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. (ACS) for Alaska, and using the default value of ‘1’ for the regional cost adjustment for the U.S. Virgin Islands, which has the effect of increasing labor costs,” it said. It also seeks comment on using, in the next version of the model, the plant mix values that were filed separately in a model previously filed by Puerto Rico Telephone Co., and plant mix values submitted by Vitelco.