FCC Gets More Pushback on Proposed Broadband Mapping Rules
The Utilities Technology Council raised similar questions as USTelecom and NTCA (see 2007080047) on the draft broadband mapping order and Further NPRM set for a commissioner vote Thursday (see 2006250062). The maximum buffers proposed “are not appropriate for fiber to…
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the premises networks in rural unserved areas,” UTC said: “Instead, the Commission should increase the maximum buffer distance for fiber to the home technologies to 20-60 kilometers (km) from the aggregation point.” In rural areas, “many homes and businesses are located miles apart from each other, which is why fiber runs are typically longer than in suburban or urban environments,” UTC said. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association expressed similar in a call with an aide to Chairman Ajit Pai. In markets today, providers are “consistently seeing” gigabit passive optical network equipment serve customers at distances of 40 km to 45 km or more,” NRECA said. ACA Connects said it “takes issue” with the buffer distances.