ACA Wants Big Buildouts for CAF
Bidders that can cover the most terrain should win out in the FCC’s Connect America Fund Phase II bidding, the American Cable Association said. The industry group’s Monday ex parte filing in docket 10-90, posted Tuesday, said association executives met…
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last week with FCC officials to talk over the ACA’s proposal for how the competitive bidding should go for the buildout of improved broadband coverage across rural parts of the country. Giving extra weight to applicants that can serve the widest area of a region “will avoid the situation where a single bid for a single census block can prevail over a bid to build a great many census blocks throughout an entire area,” ACA said. Under the ACA proposal, a single round of bidding would be conducted in four consecutive stages, starting with networks capable of offering 1 Gbps/500 Mbps capacity, with the three subsequent stages offering less capacity to remaining census blocks. Applicants wouldn't include prices in their bids, with the expenses calculated by a price model and winning bids awarded based on maximum coverage in a county, ACA said.