[1st-mile-nm] FCC Announcement - NM Details

[John Badal]

Richard,

I don't believe your question was answered.  To be clear, the annual dollar amounts and recipients of the FCC's CAF Phase II support for NM listed below are what the FCC offered to the 3 price cap carriers 2-3 years ago for broadband expansion.  The total support was for 6 years (6 X the annual support listed.)  One of those price cap carriers rejected the support and many of its census blocks in high cost areas in NM were put up for auction under the FCC's CAF Phase II reverse auction program, as were a large number of higher costing census blocks in the other two price cap carriers' service territories.  

Just in northwest NM five other telecom carriers won the right to provide broadband in those auctioned census blocks.  The total amount of support received by the winners in the auction is less than half of what was offered the price cap carriers.  How's that possible?  Simply, using newer fixed wireless technologies, along with the initial capital investment in the infrastructure supported by the CAF program, it's actually cheaper to overbuild a fixed wireless system in many rural areas than it would cost the incumbent to upgrade a landline system.  

One last word about the benefits derived the unserved and underserved customers in those higher costing census blocks.  Most of the winning companies  designed their bids to provide 25Mbps download speeds, but, using newer technologies, those systems can be scaled up to much higher speeds when needed.  

John

-----Original Message-----
From: 1st-mile-nm <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org> On Behalf Of Richard Lowenberg
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 12:26 PM
To: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FCC Announcement - NM Details

On 2019-04-30 07:49, Mimbres Communications wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 10:47 PM Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> By 2028 1,703 additional homes and businesses in NM will be upgraded 
>> to 25/3 Mbps service with this support?
>> Which providers in NM received how much funding?
> 


> https://www.fcc.gov/file/14390/download has a list by provider and 
> county.
> 
> https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/maps/caf-2-accepted-map/ maps the 
> accepted locations.


Here's the New Mexico State Summary from the above site:
PC Carrier		Eligible Locations	Support Amount
CenturyLink		     25,308	        $10,942,748
Frontier Communications	      7,032	        $ 4,426,327
Windstream Communications     8,720	        $ 3,883,590
Total		             41,060	        $19,252,665



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