Proposed Frontier CASF Awards Overlap RDOF Areas, Say Etheric, LTD
Small ISPs opposed Frontier Communications winning California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) support under two draft resolutions at the California Public Utilities Commission. Draft resolution T-17749 would inappropriately award CASF funds in areas that overlap parts of where Etheric Communications won…
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Rural Digital Opportunity Fund support, Etheric and GeoLinks wrote the CPUC Communications Division Tuesday. Those telcos and LTD Broadband wrote in a separate letter that draft resolution T-17754 would improperly send support to areas overlapping parts of Etheric and LTD Broadband’s RDOF award areas. “The CASF applications could be denied in their entirety because duplicative funding is a waste of ratepayer resources, and particularly troubling because the remaining CASF money is insufficient to fund all applications submitted in 2020,” the ISPs wrote in both letters. At least remove overlapping areas from the award or wait until verifying the FCC confirmed Etheric’s RDOF award, they said.