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FCC 54.310
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 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-level commitment
for six years. Connect America Phase II support awarded through a
competitive bidding process shall be provided for ten years.
(c) Deployment obligation. Recipients of Connect America Phase II
model-based support must complete deployment to 40 percent of supported
locations by December 31, 2017, to 60 percent of supported locations by
December 31, 2018, to 80 percent of supported locations by December 31,
2019, and to 100 percent of supported locations by December 31, 2020.
Compliance shall be determined based on the total number of supported
locations in a state.
(1) For purposes of meeting the obligation to deploy to the requisite number
of supported locations in a state, recipients may serve unserved 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 supported locations in the state.
(2) Recipients of Connect America Phase II model-based support may elect to
deploy to 95 percent of the number of supported locations in a given state
with a corresponding reduction in support computed based on the average
support per location in the state times 1.89.
(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; 80 FR 4477 , Jan. 27, 2015]
Effective Date Note: At 79 FR 39188 , July 9, 2014, § 54.310, paragraph (e)(1)
was revised. This paragraph contains information collection and
recordkeeping requirements and will not become effective until approval has
been given by the Office of Management and Budget.
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