08/04/16
FCC CAF Offer to Ohio Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers
In a public notice from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the final version of the Alternative Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM) was released. The FCC has offered 19 small, rural Ohio local telephone companies, including Horizon and TDS, $55 million in subsidies over 10 years to upgrade their broadband networks. This next phase of the Connect America Fund targets over 7,000 home and business locations in areas served by these rural companies that do not have 10 Mbps download/1 Mbps upload broadband service available today.
04/29/15
FCC Offers $10 billion for Broadband Network Upgrades
Today, the FCC formally offered the nation’s largest telephone companies, including AT&T, Verizon, Frontier, CenturyLink, FairPoint, and Windstream, $10 billion in subsidies to offer broadband service to over 4 million homes and businesses that are currently unserved. Today’s offer is a critical step in “Phase II” of the Connect America Fund, which will subsidize the construction of 10 Mbps down/1 Mbps up broadband networks in these areas over the next six years.
11/12/13
Connect America Funds Will Boost Broadband Access
The Federal Communications Commission has approved $31.6 million of Connect America Fund grants to connect underserved over 40,000 homes and businesses in Puerto Rico.
The Commission created the Connect America Fund to perpetuate the benefits of broadband in communities with meager market incentives for service expansion without public-private intervention.
09/23/13
Maps of Proposed Connect America Fund, Phase I, Broadband Upgrades
Today, Connected Nation unveils a set of maps of the areas that broadband providers have proposed to receive subsidies to upgrade to broadband, as part of the FCC’s Connect America Fund Phase I.
08/23/13
Commitments Announced for FCC’s Connect America Fund: Phase 1
On August 20, larger (“price cap”) local telephone companies began making commitments to the FCC to build out fixed broadband service to thousands of homes and businesses that do not have access to broadband service today. These commitments are part of the Phase I of the FCC’s Connect America Fund (CAF), which offers one-time, per-location payments to these providers to upgrade their networks. All told, more than 600,000 homes and businesses could see broadband network upgrades as a result of this program.
07/30/12
National Spotlight Shines on Nevada Broadband Expansion
The nation’s top broadband official is in Nevada today celebrating new high-speed Internet expansion!
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is doing the official ribbon-cutting on projects that will bring new broadband service to more than 6,000 Nevada households that are currently unserved.
01/25/12
Connect America Fund FAQ's Answered
In the short time since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted an order that begins reforming the federal Universal Service Fund (USF) by creating the Connect America Fund and phasing out the existing High-Cost Fund, Connected Nation has noticed a big increase in the interest among Connected Nation stakeholders in the broadband mapping process and how Connected Nation’s broadband data (which is submitted for use in the National Broadband Map)
