July 18, 2025
RDOF and PR/USVI Carriers Transitioning to Fabric Location IDs for HUBB Reporting
The annual HUBB filing process is changing this year for carriers in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) and Bringing Puerto Rico Together (Uniendo a Puerto Rico) Fund and the Connect USVI Fund (PR/USVI Funds) with the transition to Fabric Location ID reporting.
Carriers participating in modernized Connect America Fund (CAF) programs with defined fixed broadband buildout obligations have until March 2, 2026, to submit and certify deployment data with USAC’s High Cost Universal Broadband (HUBB) portal showing where they built out mass-market, high-speed Internet service using support from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) program in calendar year 2025 or certify that they have “no locations to upload.”
Starting with the upcoming filing window, carriers receiving RDOF and PR/USVI Stage 2 fixed support must report deployment data in the HUBB using Fabric Location IDs from the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric (Fabric) – a single, standardized dataset of all locations in the U.S. where fixed broadband access service is available or could be installed – instead of geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) and addresses as they have in the past. (See FCC DA 25-361) Detailed FCC guidance on the transition to Fabric ID reporting in the HUBB is available here.
RDOF and PR/USVI carriers also have until March 2, 2026, to resubmit and certify broadband deployment data by Fabric Location ID for locations already reported in the HUBB using latitude and longitude coordinates and addresses. All certified locations that RDOF and PR/USVI carriers reported in the HUBB using latitude and longitude coordinates and addresses are no longer visible to carriers in the system.
Note that carriers can still access past deployment data through the CAF Map, an interactive online map that displays the geographic areas that are eligible for CAF support, as well as the specific fixed locations where participating carriers have reported offering mass-market, high speed Internet service funded by the program. Carriers can view and download RDOF and PR/USVI Stage 2 fixed locations certified in the HUBB as of March 7, 2025, reflecting deployment through Dec. 31, 2024, through the CAF Map dataset on the USAC Open Data platform.
Read the full announcement here.
July 14, 2025
Carriers Must Submit and Certify Results from Q2 Network Testing by Today
USAC reminds carriers that they have until today, July 15, 2025, to submit and certify results from network speed and latency testing conducted in the second 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 testing framework.
Carriers that fail to submit and certify all second quarter test data for all obligated speed tiers for the full sample of subscriber locations selected for testing in the USAC Performance Measures Module (PMM) by today’s deadline will face a reduction in support that will not be restored. (See FCC DA 25-289).
This requirement applies to carriers in the following funds (as well as ACS):
Carriers that did not conduct network performance measures testing during the second quarter for any reason, including lack of active subscribers to test, and therefore do not have test data to submit and certify, must notify the FCC and USAC by today, July 15, 2025, by emailing ConnectAmerica@fcc.gov and hccerts@usac.org.
Carriers in the funds listed above (as well as ACS) can currently view and download compliance reports for the first quarter of 2025 in the PMM. These compliance reports include details at the Study Area Code (SAC) level about the percent of upload and download speed tests and latency tests conducted in the first quarter that met the network performance standards established by the FCC. Please see PMM Compliance Calculations for a detailed explanation of how the PMM calculates compliance.
USAC encourages carriers to check these quarterly compliance reports to find out if they are at risk of being in the compliance gap for the first quarter of 2025 either because they have not submitted all required test data or because their speed and latency test results did not meet FCC standards. Carriers that have not yet submitted all mandatory test data – that is all test data for each obligated speed tier for the full sample of selected subscriber locations for the quarter – should submit and certify the missing data as soon as possible to reduce the impact on future support payments. And carriers that are at risk of being out of compliance because their speed and latency test results did not meet FCC standards can potentially avoid penalties by submitting passing quarterly results going forward.
Read the full announcement here.
July 14, 2025
Carriers Must Submit and Certify Results from Q2 Network Pre-Testing by Today
USAC reminds carriers participating in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) that they have until today, July 15, 2025, to submit and certify results from network speed and latency pre-testing conducted in the second 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 testing framework.
Carriers that fail to submit and certify all second quarter pre-test data for all obligated speed tiers for the full sample of subscriber locations selected for testing in the USAC Performance Measures Module (PMM) by today’s deadline will face withholding of support. (See FCC DA 25-289) RDOF carriers that did not conduct network performance measures pre-testing during the second quarter for any reason, including lack of active subscribers to test, and therefore do not have test data to submit and certify, must notify the FCC and USAC by today, July 15, 2025, by emailing ConnectAmerica@fcc.gov and hccerts@usac.org.
RDOF carriers can currently view and download compliance reports reports for the first quarter of 2025 in the PMM. These compliance reports include details at the Study Area Code (SAC) level about the percent of upload and download speed pre-tests and latency pre-tests conducted in the first quarter that met the network performance standards established by the FCC. Please see PMM Compliance Calculations for a detailed explanation of how the PMM calculates compliance. USAC encourages carriers to check these compliance reports to confirm that they submitted all required pre-test data for the first quarter and to find out if their pre-test results met FCC speed and latency standards.
Read the full announcement here.
July 10, 2025
Compliance Reports Now Available For First Quarter Network Testing
Carriers can now access compliance reports displaying results from network performance measures testing conducted in the first quarter of 2025 at a random sample of broadband subscriber locations supported by the Connect America Fund (CAF) through the USAC Performance Measures Module (PMM).
These compliance reports include details at the Study Area Code (SAC) level about the percent of upload and download speed tests and latency tests conducted in the first quarter that met the network performance standards established by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) performance measures compliance framework. Please see PMM Compliance Calculations for a detailed explanation of how the PMM calculates compliance.
First quarter compliance reports are now available in the PMM for carriers participating in the following funds (as well as ACS):
USAC encourages carriers to check these quarterly compliance reports to find out if they are at risk of being in the compliance gap for the first quarter of 2025 either because they have not submitted all required test data or because their speed and latency test results did not meet FCC standards. Carriers that have not yet submitted all mandatory test data – that is all test data for each obligated speed tier for the full sample of selected subscriber locations for the quarter – should submit and certify the missing data as soon as possible to reduce the impact on future support payments. And carriers that are at risk of being out of compliance because their speed and latency test results did not meet FCC standards can potentially avoid penalties by submitting passing quarterly results going forward.
USAC also reminds carriers in all of these funds (and ACS) that they have until July 15, 2025, to submit and certify results from network performance measures testing conducted in the second quarter of 2025 at a random sample of CAF-supported broadband locations with active subscribers. Carriers that fail to submit and certify all second quarter test data for all obligated speed tiers for the full sample of locations selected for testing by the July 15, 2025, deadline will face a reduction in support that will not be restored. (See FCC DA 25-289 ). Carriers that did not conduct network performance measures testing during the second quarter for any reason, including lack of active subscribers to test, and therefore do not have test data to submit and certify, must notify the FCC and USAC by July 15, 2025, by emailing ConnectAmerica@fcc.gov and hccerts@usac.org.
Read the full announcement here.
July 10, 2025
Compliance Reports Now Available For First Quarter Network Pre-Testing
Carriers participating in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) can now access compliance reports displaying results from network performance measures pre-testing conducted in the first quarter of 2025 at a random sample of broadband subscriber locations supported by the Connect America Fund (CAF) through the USAC Performance Measures Module (PMM).
These compliance reports include details at the Study Area Code (SAC) level about the percent of upload and download speed tests and latency tests conducted in the first quarter that met the network performance standards established by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) performance measures compliance framework. Please see PMM Compliance Calculations for a detailed explanation of how the PMM calculates compliance.
USAC encourages carriers to check these compliance reports to confirm that they submitted all required pre-test data for the first quarter and to find out if their pre-test results met FCC speed and latency standards.
USAC also reminds RDOF carriers that they have until July 15, 2025, to submit and certify results from network performance measures pre-testing conducted in the second quarter of 2025 at a random sample of CAF-supported broadband locations with active subscribers. RDOF carriers that fail to submit and certify all pre-test data for all obligated speed tiers for the full sample of selected locations in the PMM by the July 15, 2025, deadline will face withholding of support. (See FCC DA 25-289)
Carriers that did not conduct network performance measures pre-testing during the second quarter for any reason, including lack of active subscribers to test, and therefore do not have test data to submit and certify, must notify the FCC and USAC by July 15, 2025, by emailing ConnectAmerica@fcc.gov and hccerts@usac.org.
Read the full announcement here.
