FCC Bureaus Deny Alaska Group Waiver Bid on Accuracy Standard for Fiber Maps
FCC staff rejected as "overly broad" an Alaska Telecom Association request to waive a requirement that carriers receiving Alaska Plan USF support submit fiber network maps accurate within 7.6 meters. ATA "fails to plead with particularity the facts and circumstances…
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warranting relief," said a Wireless and Wireline bureaus order in Monday's Daily Digest and docket 16-271. It noted ATA's Feb. 6 petition came after some members submitted data meeting the accuracy standard and less than a month before a March 1 deadline. "Relief is unnecessary for the over fifty percent of ATA members who have already certified in their initial filing," nearly six months early, the order said. "ATA provides no detailed information on the level of accuracy of the network data that its other members possess, why they do not possess similarly accurate data, or why a majority of its members had no problem meeting the requirement." ATA declined comment Monday. GCI Communication and its United Utilities and Yukon Telephone submitted confidential information Friday "to comply as fully as possible" but "cannot certify" that all fiber information is locationally accurate to the standard. "I certify that the links depicting aerial and buried fiber are accurate to within 50 meters to an 80 percent confidence level," wrote Frederick Hitz, vice president-regulatory economics and finance. "I also certify that all other information is accurate to within 7.6 meters to a 95 percent confidence level." ATA changed its name from the Alaska Telephone Association in mid-2018.