Consolidated Accepts $4 M From Connect America for Rural Broadband
27/08/2015
Mark Wigfield, (202) 418-0253
mark.wigfield@fcc.gov
For Immediate Release
Consolidated Telecom Accepts Nearly $14 Million in Annual Support from Connect
America Fund to Expand and Support Broadband for Nearly 50,000 Rural
Consumers in Six States
--
WASHINGTON, August 27, 2015 - Consolidated Telecom, Inc. has accepted $13,922,480 in
annual, ongoing support from the Connect America Fund to expand and support broadband for
nearly 50,000 of its rural customers.
The Connect America Fund support will enable Consolidated to deliver broadband at speeds of at
least 10 Mbps for downloads and 1 Mbps uploads to nearly 25,000 homes and businesses in its
rural service areas where the cost of broadband deployment might otherwise be prohibitive.
Consolidated's decision to accept support from the Connect America Fund will greatly benefit
its rural customers by expanding robust broadband in their communities, said FCC Chairman
Tom Wheeler. The Connect America Fund is delivering on its promise of ensuring that all
Americans have access to the opportunities provided by modern broadband service, no matter
where they live.
Below is the amount of annual support provided by the offer and number of homes and
businesses served by state:
State
Consolidated Total
24,698
$13,922,480
CA
71
$14,837
IA
3,019
$2,393,216
IL
12,079
$6,998,705
MN
4,266
$2,516,502
PA
175
$83,898
TX
5,088
$1,915,321
Like telephone service in the 20th Century, broadband has become essential to life in the 21st
Century. But, according to the FCC's latest Broadband Progress Report, nearly one in three rural
Americans lack access to 10/1 broadband, compared to only one in 100 urban Americans. The
Connect America Fund is designed to close that rural-urban digital divide.
The FCC's traditional universal service program succeeded in ensuring telephone network
coverage in rural America by providing subsidies where the cost of service would otherwise be
prohibitive. In late 2011, the FCC modernized the program to support networks capable of
providing broadband and voice services, and created the Connect America Fund to efficiently and
effectively administer that support to expand broadband in rural areas where market forces alone
can't support expansion.
Over the next six years, Phase II of Connect America will provide more than $9 billion to expand
broadband-capable networks throughout rural America nationwide, all without increasing the cost
of the program to ratepayers. Overall, the FCC's Universal Service Fund allocates $4.5 billion
annually through various universal service programs for high-cost areas to support voice- and
broadband-capable networks in rural America.
Carriers receiving Connect America Fund support must build out broadband to 40 percent of
funded locations by the end 2017, 60 percent by the end of 2018, 80 percent by the end of 2019,
and 100 percent by the end of 2020.
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This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action. Release of the full text of a Commission order
constitutes official action. See MCI v. FCC, 515 F.2d 385 (D.C. Cir. 1974).
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