Wireline

摘要

The FCC should proceed cautiously in establishing a more elaborate Connect America Fund PhasenI support program because it was designed to be only a limited, interim program to be used until the PhasenII cost model could be worked out, the American Cable Association told Wireline Bureau officialsnWednesday (http://bit.ly/13AY989). The commission should change the rules only if it has evidence they are “so restrictive or arbitrary" that they do not meet the objectives for the program, ACA said. The commissionnneed not increase the amount of support per location, or establish a new second-mile fiber componentnto the program, ACA said. ACA proposed that price cap LECs first be required to serve lower-costnunserved locations with up to 768 downstream/200 upstream kbps, before deploying broadband to areasnthat see less than 4/1 Mbps broadband. “Under ACA’s proposal each price cap LEC will now have morenthan a sufficient number of lower cost unserved locations,” the association said. ACA also cautionednabout ILECs that might game the system by returning support they accepted in 2012, and then reclaimingnthe support in 2013 for use “under more lenient amended rules.”