USAC reminds all eligible telecommunications carriers (ETCs) participating in the High Cost and/or Lifeline programs that they must file and certify Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Form 481 for program year 2026 by July 1, 2025. FCC Form 481, which is accessible through the USAC E-file/Okta One Portal, collects financial and operations information used to validate carrier support. Please […]
Connect America Fund (CAF) deployment verification reviews are coming soon for carriers in funds that had 2024 broadband deployment milestones. Now that the March 3, 2025, deadline for carriers to submit and certify their 2024 broadband deployment data in the High Cost Universal Broadband (HUBB) portal has passed, carriers participating in the following funds may be subject […]
All eligible telecommunications carriers (ETCs) participating in the High Cost and/or Lifeline programs may now access the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Form 481 for program year 2026 through the USAC E-file/Okta One Portal and begin the annual Form 481 filing process. FCC Form 481, which must be certified by July 1, 2025, collects financial and operations information used to […]
USAC reminds carriers that they have until Tues., April 15, 2025, to submit and certify results from network speed and latency testing conducted in the first quarter of 2025 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 compliance framework. […]
USAC reminds carriers participating in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) that they have until Tues., April 15, 2025, to submit and certify results from network speed and latency pre-testing conducted in the first quarter of 2025 at a random sample of broadband subscriber locations supported by the Connect America Fund (CAF) in order to comply with the Federal […]
USAC reminds carriers subject to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Performance Measures testing framework that they must complete a week of first quarter network speed and latency testing at a random sample of broadband subscriber locations supported by the Connect America Fund (CAF) by Mon., March 31, 2025, and must submit and certify the results of that testing through the USAC […]
USAC reminds carriers participating in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) that they must complete a week of first quarter network speed and latency testing at a random sample of broadband subscriber locations supported by the Connect America Fund (CAF) by Mon., March 31, 2025, and must submit and certify the results of that testing through the USAC Performance Measures Module […]
Carriers that submitted and certified results from network performance measures testing conducted at a random sample of broadband subscriber locations supported by the Connect America Fund (CAF)in the fourth quarter of 2024 can now access compliance reports displaying the results of that testing through the USAC Performance Measures Module (PMM). These compliance reports include details at the Study […]
The annual HUBB filing deadline is less than a month away. Carriers participating in modernized Connect America Fund (CAF) programs with defined fixed broadband buildout obligations have until March 3, 2025, to file and certify deployment data with USAC’s High Cost Universal Broadband (HUBB) portal showing where they built out mass-market, high-speed Internet service in calendar year […]
USAC strongly encourages carriers participating in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) to obtain their random samples of active subscriber locations for quarterly network speed and latency pre-testing starting this year as soon as possible so that they have enough time to complete a full week of pre-testing at these locations before the end of the first […]