Empowering High-Cost Areas with Enhanced Broadband Support
This document outlines the high-cost goals aimed at providing ongoing support to high-cost areas in terms of broadband connectivity. It defines criteria for areas serving at 100/20 Mbps without competitor service and those with a commitment to upgrade from 25/3 Mbps to 100/20 Mbps. Additionally, it discusses federally enforceable commitments and necessary data inputs for implementing these goals.
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NUSF-139 High Cost Goals Provide ongoing support to High Cost Areas served at 100/20 Mbps Not served by a competitor Provide ongoing support to High Cost Areas served at 25/3 Mbps that have a federally enforceable commitment to provide 100/20 Mbps Not served by a competitor High Cost areas are defined according to census blocks with the following: Less than 20 households Less than 42 households per square mile Is not part of a census designated city or village
Federally Enforceable Commitment Neb. Rev. Stat. 86-324.02(2)(a): If a broadband serviceable location is subject to a federally enforceable commitment for deployment of infrastructure capable of access to the Internet at speeds of at least one hundred megabits per second for downloading and at least twenty megabits per second for uploading, the commission shall continue to provide ongoing high-cost support from the fund so long as the recipient of the ongoing high-cost support is in compliance with the deployment obligations of such federally enforceable commitment and the requirements of the fund; and - Propose that the following would constitute a federally enforceable commitment: FCC Enhanced A-CAM USDA ReConnect RDOF (if recipient receives ongoing support today)
Data Inputs CQA Cost Model Broadband Data Collection (BDC) wireline service data Enhanced A-CAM location list A-CAM area definition Federal Support disbursements High Cost area definition shapefile Exchange Boundary Data
Columns location_id CB ServiceArea SAState ShortName ReportingSAC ReportingStudyAreaName RORorPC OCN CDPlaceFIPS PlaceName TotalInvestment TotalOpexCost CapitalCost Node0Electronics Node0Facilities Node2 Node3 Node4 Node0LandB NetworkOperationsPSOpex NetworkOperationsNPSOpex CustomerOperationsMktOpex GenAdminOpex BadDebtOpex DEPR COM TAX Latitude Longitude H3_9 FCC_bsl_flag FCC_units Telco Cable Fiber Fixed Wireless Licensed NTIAStatus funding_programs Value example Description 1000000001Unique ID for the Fabric location. 31055002200200615-digit 2020 U.S. Census Bureau FIPS code for the census block OMAHNENW State defined CLLI code of the serving area the location falls in. NE State USPS CEN Company Short Name 375143SAC Qwest Corporation Company Long Name PC Rate of Return or Price Cap 9631OCN 3137000Census defined place FIPS Omaha Census defined place name $ 72,000 Total network investment. $ 1,650 Mothly recurring operating expenses $ 700 Monthly recurring capital costs $ 10,000 Node0 (central office and interoffice related) electronics investments $ 2,000 Node0 outside plant investment $ 10,000 Loop feeder investments $ 15,000 Loop distribution investments $ 20,000 Loop drop and ONT investments $ 15,000 Land and Building investments $ 100 Monthly recurring plant specific operating expenses $ 200 Monthly recurring non plant specific operating Expenses $ 1,000 Monthly recurring marketing operating expenses $ 200 Monthly recurring general administration operating expenses $ 150 Monthly recurring bad debt operating expenses $ 300 Monthly recurring depreciation (See documentation for details) $ 300 Monthly recurring cost of money (See documentation for details) $ 100 Monthly recurring tax (See documentation for details) 41.2222Latitude coordinate of the fabric location -95.9999Longitude coordinate of the fabric location 88227e25a81bbbb A reference to the H3 hex cell ID, level 9. 1An indication of if the Fabric record is a broadband serviceable location (1) or not (0). 5An estimate of the number of residential and non-residential units within the location. 1BDC result for Telco. 1=Served, 2=Underserved, 3=Unserved 2BDC result for Cable. 1=Served, 2=Underserved, 3=Unserved 3BDC result for fiber. 1=Served, 2=Underserved, 3=Unserved 1BDC result for licensed fixed wireless. 1=Served, 2=Underserved, 3=Unserved 2NTIA BEAD status 0Identifies Federal subsidy program area based on data found at https://fundingmap.fcc.gov/home.
Step 2: Assign federal support Step 0: CQA Output Step 1: Sum monthly cost and deduct funding threshold Step 3: Impute federal support location_id company total monthly cost less $63.69 EACAM assigned support ACAM assigned support general assigned support location_id company monthly OpEx monthly CapEx location_id company total monthly cost less $63.69 location_id company cost base Step 4: Determine service levels, rurality, and federally enforceable commitments Step 5: Determine eligible cost base location_id company eligible cost base location_id company cost base Is High Cost (rural) Is 25/3 by ILEC Is 25/3 by Competitor Is 100/20 by ILEC Is 100/20 by Competitor Has federally enforceable commitment Step 6: Aggregate cost base at company level company eligible cost base Step 7: Apply glide path, earnings test, and go through redistribution company final support
