Goto Section: 54.801 | 54.803 | Table of Contents
FCC 54.802
Revised as of September 1, 2021
Goto Year:2020 |
2022
§ 54.802 Rural Digital Opportunity Fund geographic areas, deployment
obligations, and support disbursements.
(a) Geographic areas eligible for support. Rural Digital Opportunity
Fund support may be made available for census blocks or other areas
identified as eligible by public notice.
(b) Term of support. Rural Digital Opportunity Fund support shall be
provided for ten years.
(c) Deployment obligation. (1) All recipients of Rural Digital
Opportunity Fund support must complete deployment to 40 percent of the
required number of locations as determined by the Connect America Cost
Model by the end of the third year, to 60 percent by the end of the
fourth year, and to 80 percent by the end of the fifth year. The
Wireline Competition Bureau will publish updated location counts no
later than the end of the sixth year. A support recipient's final
service milestones will depend on whether the Wireline Competition
Bureau determines there are more or fewer locations than determined by
the Connect America Cost Model in the relevant areas as follows:
(i) More Locations. After the Wireline Competition Bureau adopts
updated location counts, in areas where there are more locations than
the number of locations determined by the Connect America Cost Model,
recipients of Rural Digital Opportunity Fund support must complete
deployment to 100 percent of the number of locations determined by the
Connect America Cost Model by the end of the sixth year. Recipients of
Rural Digital Opportunity Fund support must then complete deployment to
100 percent of the additional number of locations determined by the
Wireline Competition Bureau's updated location count by end of the
eighth year. If the new location count exceeds 35% of the number of
locations determined by the Connect America Cost Model within their
area in each state, recipients of Rural Digital Opportunity Fund
support will have the opportunity to seek additional support or relief.
(ii) Fewer Locations. In areas where there are fewer locations than the
number of locations determined by the Connect America Cost Model, a
Rural Digital Opportunity Fund support recipient must notify the
Wireline Competition Bureau no later than March 1 following the fifth
year of deployment. Upon confirmation by the Wireline Competition
Bureau, Rural Digital Opportunity Fund support recipients must complete
deployment to the number of locations required by the new location
count by the end of the sixth year. Support recipients for which the
new location count is less than 65 percent of the Connect America Cost
Model locations within their area in each state shall have the support
amount reduced on a pro rata basis by the number of reduced locations.
(iii) Newly Built Locations. In addition to offering the required
service to the updated number of locations identified by the Wireline
Competition Bureau, Rural Digital Opportunity Fund support recipients
must offer service to locations built since the revised count, upon
reasonable request. Support recipients are not required to deploy to
any location built after milestone year eight.
(d) Disbursement of Rural Digital Opportunity Fund 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.
Goto Section: 54.801 | 54.803
Goto Year: 2020 |
2022
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