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FCC 54.310
Revised as of October 1, 2014
Goto Year:2013 |
2015
§ 54.310 Connect America Fund for Price Cap Territories--Phase II
(a) Geographic areas eligible for support. Connect America Phase II
support may be made available for census blocks or other areas
identified as eligible by public notice, including locations identified
by the forward-looking cost model as extremely high-cost. The number of
supported locations will be identified for each area eligible for
support will be identified by public notice.
(b) Term of support. Connect America Phase II model-based support shall
be provided to price cap carriers that elect to make a state-wide
commitment for five years. Connect America Phase II support awarded
through a competitive bidding process shall be provided for ten years.
(c) Deployment schedule. Recipients of Phase II funding must complete
deployment to 85% of supported locations within three years of
notification of Phase II support authorization and to 100% of supported
locations within five years of notification of Phase II support
authorization. For purposes of meeting the obligation to deploy to the
requisite number of supported locations, incumbent price cap carriers
accepting a state-level commitment may serve locations in census blocks
with costs above the extremely high-cost threshold instead of locations
in eligible census blocks, provided that they meet the public interest
obligations set forth in § 54.309 for those locations, and provided
that the total number of locations covered is greater than or equal to
the number of locations in the eligible census blocks for which the
state-level commitment is made.
(d) Disbursement of Phase II funding. An eligible telecommunications
carrier will be advised by public notice when it is authorized to
receive support. The public notice will detail how disbursements will
be made.
(e) Provider eligibility. Any eligible telecommunications carrier is
eligible to receive Connect America Phase II support in eligible areas.
(1) An entity may obtain eligible telecommunications carrier
designation after public notice of winning bidders in a competitive
bidding process for the offer of Phase II Connect America support. An
applicant in the competitive bidding process shall certify that it is
financially and technically qualified to provide the services supported
by Connect America Phase II in order to receive such support.
(2) To the extent an applicant in the competitive bidding process seeks
eligible telecommunications carrier designation prior to public notice
of winning bidders for Phase II Connect America support, its
designation as an eligible telecommunications carrier may be
conditional subject to the receipt of Phase II Connect America support.
(f) Transition to model-based support. Eligible telecommunications
carriers electing model-based support in states where that support is
less than their Phase I frozen support will transition to model-based
support as follows: In addition to model-based support, in the first
year of Phase II, they will receive 75% of the difference between Phase
I frozen support and model-based support; in the second year of Phase
II, they will receive 50% of the difference between Phase I frozen
support and model-based support; and in the third year of Phase II,
they will receive 25% of the difference between Phase I frozen support
and model-based support.
[ 79 FR 11335 , Feb. 28, 2014, as amended at 79 FR 39188 , July 9, 2014]
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