The FCC created an interactive map to showcase...
The FCC created an interactive map to showcase areas containing up to 600,000 homes and businesses, to be funded by the Connect America Fund’s second round of money. The map focuses on both the “census block level” and “the big-picture…
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overview” of these locations, the agency said in a press release Thursday (http://fcc.us/152ArlI). Providers requested $385 million in CAF money last month, with commitments to deploy broadband in the areas by 2016, the FCC said. Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn said the map “will provide welcome news to millions of rural Americans who have been waiting far too long for broadband access.” The map also sets up the process by which entities can challenge funding: “The map released today facilitates identification of these areas, where competitors may wish to file challenges to requested Phase I subsidies,” the FCC said. “As a result of this challenge process, the locations currently depicted on the map could change."