FCC Seeks Input on Model Design and data Inputs for Phase II of the Connect America Fund

This Public Notice is the next step of an open, deliberative process to develop the final model design and inputs for the Connect America Fund. The Notice identifies several significant threshold model design decisions and seeks comment on specific proposals for the design of the model and data inputs to be used.

This is not an exhaustive list of such issues, but represents the next step in the open, deliberative process to determine the design of the model the Bureau will ultimately adopt. The Bureau also seeks comment on commenters’ identification of additional issues that need to be developed in the record of this proceeding.
The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau anticipates that, in addition to comments in response to this Public Notice, there will be additional opportunities for further public input before a final model is adopted and support levels are established. The further opportunities may include additional comment periods or workshop discussions, and may address in further detail matters raised in this Public Notice or questions not reached by this Public Notice, such as the appropriate prices to assign to specific cost inputs to the model. The Bureau may modify model design and inputs, including potentially combining elements of multiple models into a new model, in response to input it receives from the public.

Comments due July 9, 2012; Reply comments are due July 23, 2012 [WC Docket Nos. 10-90, 05-337]