The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released more than $137.2 million in Connect America funds over the next decade to expand broadband to unserved rural homes and businesses in 17 states. The funding was awarded through last year’s Connect America…
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 27, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced the availability of speed and latency testing for the Connect America Fund (CAF) as part of the Calix Smart Home and Business solution. Communications service providers (CSPs) can now leverage Calix Support…
The Connect America Fund Accountability Act, introduced in the House of Representatives by Representative Doug Collins (R-Georgia), aims to ensure that network operators who deploy broadband using Connect America Fund dollars are delivering the required broadband speeds and meeting other…
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance, an advocacy group for local community economic development, has issued a harsh critique of the Connect America Fund program, which pays some or all of a carrier’s costs of deploying broadband in rural areas. Despite…
The FCC said today that it has begun accepting applications for the Connect America Fund Phase II reverse auction. Interested parties will have until March 30 to submit Connect America Fund auction applications. The auction will start on July 24…
Telcos are likely to use a mixture of technologies — including fixed wireless, copper bonding and vectoring – to meet deployment requirements of phase two of the Connect America Fund (CAF), said Kurt Raaflaub, head of strategic solutions marketing for…
The state of New York, rather than the FCC, will award up to $170 million in broadband Connect America funding to network operators to help cover the cost of bringing broadband to areas of the state where broadband is not…
The state of Massachusetts has asked the FCC to release federal broadband Connect America funding to states. The funding in question was rejected by the nation’s largest price cap carriers in 2015. Granting the Massachusetts request would mean the FCC…
The FCC yesterday released a preliminary list of census blocks eligible for the Connect America Fund auction. That auction will award funding to help cover the cost of bringing service to areas that cannot get broadband today or can only…
Rural areas that currently lack broadband could gain broadband at speeds above 1 Gbps as the result of action taken by the FCC at its monthly meeting today. Speeds of 1 Gbps downstream and 500 Mbps upstream are one of…
A long-awaited order for modernizing the Universal Service program for rate-of-return carriers is currently circulating within the FCC. Although details haven’t been released, a blog post from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler offers some basic information about the order. Importantly, the…