Rural Electric Co-ops, NTCA Lobby FCC on CAF Broadband Performance Measurements
Electric cooperatives urged FCC adoption of their performance measurement proposals for Connect America Fund broadband subsidy recipients, including requiring providers to "meet 90% of the speed and latency requirement at least 95% of the time." Required testing should be limited…
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to within a CAF provider's network, said a filing of the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives and others on a discussion with an aide to Chairman Ajit Pai, posted Wednesday in docket 10-90. They said if performance is measured from a customer’s premise to "Internet Exchange Points," smaller hubs in cities such as Kansas City, Missouri, should be included to reduce compliance burdens and costs. They backed an FCC proposal to "require speed testing during peak times between 7 pm and 11 pm." NTCA urged performance testing duties "that recognize the characteristics of small, rural providers," said a filing on a meeting with the Pai aide. "These include an appropriately-sized testing pool ... as well as recognition of the costs of using [customer premises equipment] testing devices in the field," which the RLEC group said are greater in rural areas.