Industry Coalition Asks FCC to Modify Enhanced ACAM Support Adjustment Process

A coalition of industry groups asked the FCC to modify its process for assigning costs to broadband serviceable locations (BSL) as part of the adjustment process for the enhanced alternative connect America cost model (E-ACAM) program. In a letter Wednesday in docket 10-90, the ACAM Broadband Coalition, NTCA, USTelecom and WTA asked the commission to use the "model-provided cost of a nearby BSL in the E-ACAM company’s study area to assign a cost to an uncosted BSL." The groups said the proposed adjustment "provides an equitable, simple to administer means to address" BSLs in the latest version of the broadband serviceable location fabric compared with the version used in the first ACAM program.