Yesterday the FCC released a Report and Order creating the Enhanced Alternative Connect America Cost Model (EA-CAM, I guess) program which extends subsidies for rural ISPs for 10 additional years (beyond the remaining 5 years) at a cost of $1.27 to $1.33 billion annually to the FCC’s Universal Service Fund. In exchange, any ISP that elects this subsidy would be required to deploy 100/20 broadband to everyone in their service area. According to my estimates, if all these ISPs accept the EA-CAM offer and build fiber, cable, or licensed fixed wireless (more on that later), that takes 582,675 locations off the board for the BEAD program.
Hi Mike - very interesting and certainly reduces the BEAD burden for a lot of states. I would like to get the actualy ACAM numbers for each state and a link to a map I can pull in for analysis if possiuble. Do you know where I can get this?
Hi Mike - very interesting and certainly reduces the BEAD burden for a lot of states. I would like to get the actualy ACAM numbers for each state and a link to a map I can pull in for analysis if possiuble. Do you know where I can get this?