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FCC 54.310
Revised as of October 5, 2017
Goto Year:2016 |
2018
§ 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.
Recipients of Connect America Phase II awarded through a competitive
bidding process must complete deployment to 40 percent of supported
locations by the end of the third year, to 60 percent of supported
locations by the end of the fourth year, to 80 percent of supported
locations by the end of the fifth year, and to 100 percent of supported
locations by the end of the sixth year. 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 of Connect America
Phase II model-based support 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(a) introductory text and
(a)(1) 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 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; 81 FR 44449 , July 7, 2016]
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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