NCTA Backs Midco/CAF Phase II Coalition Request

NCTA asked the FCC to grant Midco and the Connect America Fund Phase II Coalition's petition for limited waiver to "align the CAF Phase II location requirements with those more recently adopted by the Commission for the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund," said a letter posted Thursday in docket 10-90. CAF II recipients should be subject "to the same 65 percent location threshold for support reductions that applies to RDOF recipients, rather than having their support reduced for every location overestimated by the cost model," NCTA said. The Wireline Bureau previously granted a similar waiver allowing CAF II recipients to be subject to the letter of credit requirements adopted under RDOF.