FCC Clears Frontier To Get $48.6 Million in CAF II Support for ex-Verizon Areas
Frontier Communications gained access to $48.6 million in Connect America Fund subsidies for serving 114,610 locations in areas of two states covered by wireline systems it recently acquired from Verizon (see 1604010036), said an FCC Wireline Bureau order in Tuesday's…
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Daily Digest. Frontier was authorized to receive $32 million for California and $16.6 million for Texas that Verizon had accepted in broadband-oriented CAF Phase II support. The bureau directed Universal Service Administrative Co. to disburse to Frontier the USF subsidy amounts, which included some deferred amounts and other adjustments not previously disbursed to Verizon.