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Windstream spoke with FCC Wireline Bureau officials Wednesday...

Windstream spoke with FCC Wireline Bureau officials Wednesday about the type of evidence needed to contest census block elections by price cap carriers as part of the 2013 round of Connect America Fund Phase I (http://bit.ly/1a3volA). The telco also discussed…

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its challenge to the status of more than 7,000 census blocks identified as served by a wireline broadband provider on the National Broadband Map. Those challenges are “based solely on an internal analysis of whether [Windstream] received requests from customers within the census blocks to port a telephone number and lacked any specific, or direct, evidence that contradicts the status of those areas as served with broadband,” the telco said. Windstream also discussed the type of evidence another company would need to show to successfully challenge Windstream’s porting analysis.