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• FCC's wireline bureau launches Connect America Phase II challenge process

  The FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau has initiated the Connect America Phase II challenge process for price cap territories.

• FCC: Are You Being Served?

  Is your census block being served by an unsubsidized broadband provider? That's the question the FCC is putting to the test with the start of the Connect America Phase II challenge process.

• Connect America Fund II receives mixed response

  The FCC is moving ahead with the second phase of its Connect America Fund (CAF) program, which is being used to move government subsidies from traditional POTS phone service to broadband in high-cost rural areas, drawing a mix of criticism and praise.

• FCC kicks off Phase II of Connect America Fund

  The FCC announced Phase II of the Connect America Fund, extending the program designed to encourage the extension of broadband networks to reach unserved and underserved Americans, mostly in rural areas.

• FCC Approves Framework for Phase II of CAF

  The FCC voted on its proposed framework for the second phase of the Connect America Fund (CAF), which is being used to migrate subsidies from phone to broadband in high-cost (hard to reach, rural) areas, and it drew a range of mostly mixed responses.

• FCC Reductions in USF Support Cause Drop in Demand for RUS Loans

  Demand for Rural Utilities Service loan funds dropped to 37 percent of the total amount of loan funds appropriated by Congress in FY 2012, Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack and Rural Utilities Service Acting Administrator John Padalino told FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Feb. 8, according to a letter sent Friday...

• FCC Finalizes Effort to Make Available $485M For Rural Broadband in USF ...

  The Federal Communications Commission will publish in the June 26 Federal Register an order approving the outlay of potentially $485 million for rural broadband expansion in the United States (Connect America Fund, FCC, No. WC Docket No. 10-90 ...

• NRECA Seeks Rural Broadband Focus

  NRECA wants the Federal Communication Commission to keep its focus on expanding high-speed Internet to unserved rural areas before it starts to shift millions of dollars to other projects.

• Minnesota senators ask FCC for more Connect America allocations

  Minnesota Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Al Franken (D-Minn.) have appealed to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski to release more Connect America Fund money to speed broadband upgrades in their home state.

• Clyburn Statement on Connect America Fund Implementation

  The FCC awarded funding for Phase I of both the Connect America Fund and the Mobility Fund. Staff also released over 35 public notices, including one addressing the ...