USAC encourages all carriers participating in the Alternative Connect America Cost Model (Original ACAM), Revised Alternative Connect America Cost Model (Revised ACAM), Rural Broadband Experiments (RBE) and Alaska Plan programs to be sure that their broadband deployment data in the High Cost Universal Broadband (HUBB) portal – showing where they offer broadband service with Connect America Fund (CAF) support – is as up-to-date, […]

Starting in 2025, carriers participating in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) must conduct quarterly network speed and latency testing at a random sample of broadband subscriber locations supported by the Connect America Fund (CAF) in order to comply with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) performance measures testing requirements. To prepare for this process, USAC encourages RDOF carriers to be sure that their […]

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USAC encourages carriers to submit and certify results from network speed and latency testing conducted in the third quarter of 2024 at a random sample of broadband subscriber locations supported by the Connect America Fund (CAF) in the USAC Performance Measures Module (PMM) by Mon., Oct. 7, 2024, so that USAC can produce third quarter […]

USAC reminds carriers subject to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Performance Measures testing framework that they must complete a week of third quarter network speed and latency testing at a random sample of broadband subscriber locations supported by the Connect America Fund (CAF) by Mon., Sept. 30, 2024, and encourages carriers to submit and certify […]

State utility commissions and carriers that self certify must complete the annual certification of eligible telecommunications carriers (ETCs) receiving High Cost support by Oct. 1, 2024, to ensure continued carrier participation in the High Cost program. Failure to complete this certification, which must be submitted to both USAC and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), may […]

State utility commissions may now access the most recent FCC Form 481 filings for carriers under their jurisdiction that receive High Cost support through the 54.314 certification filing system in E-File, and deployment data for broadband service supported by the Connect America Fund (CAF) in their states through the Connect America Fund Broadband Map, or […]

Tribal governments may now access the most recent FCC Form 481 filings submitted by telecommunications carriers that serve Native American communities with financing from the High Cost program through the 54.314 certification filing system in  E-File, as well as deployment data for broadband networks supported by the Connect America Fund (CAF) in Indian Country through […]

USAC encourages carriers to submit and certify results from network speed and latency testing conducted in the second quarter of 2024 at a random sample of broadband subscriber locations supported by the Connect America Fund (CAF) in the USAC Performance Measures Module (PMM) no later than Mon., July 8, 2024, so that USAC can provide […]

USAC has restored the certification functionality in the system that carriers use to file and certify Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Form 481 after fixing a problem that had been preventing the system from capturing the form’s mandatory supply chain certification for some carriers. The certify and bulk certify buttons in the Form 481 filing system […]