CenturyLink and Frontier Miss FCC Connect America Fund Broadband Deployment Milestones

Earlier this month, CenturyLink and Frontier updated the Federal Communications Commission on the companies' progress deploying broadband service using support from the FCC's Universal Service Fund. In 2015, both CenturyLink and Frontier accepted Connect America Fund (CAF) Phase II support to deploy broadband service. CenturyLink was to deploy service to over one million locations in 33 states; Frontier to over 774,000 locations in twenty-nine states. But the funds came with obligations to hit deployment milestones. CenturyLink now says it reached December 2018 in twenty-three states, but has not reached the deployment milestone in 11 states: Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin. Frontier met the milestone in 27 states, but hasn't met the CAF Phase II sixty percent interim deployment milestone in Nebraska and New Mexico.