Small Company Coalition Shares Concerns Over Connect America Testing Protocols
The Small Company Coalition is calling FCC broadband testing protocols "unfeasible at best and harmful at worst." In a filing posted Wednesday in docket 10-90, the group joined others raising concerns about the testing for Connect America Fund recipients (see…
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1905150018) and calling for the testing's delay (see 1903180061). The SCC wants better safeguards against failed tests. It argued that reducing funding to carriers that underperform on broadband speed tests should be a last recourse, as it goes against the principles of extending broadband deployment to remote areas. The group asked that the FCC find a way to reimburse any funds withheld once a rural provider meets its performance thresholds.