It's official - April will be the last fully funded month of the Affordable Connectivity Program, or ACP. The FCC issued a public notice this weeks announcing the ACP's conclusion and providing additional guidance for providers and reminders of the notices required to be sent to ACP households. Providers, CLICK HERE if you want to wade through the FCC notice. Or, CLICK HERE to read a great summary written by the Benton Institute.
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Our latest edition of CBAN's Member Spotlight is now available for viewing on the CBAN YouTube channel! Our topic is CBAN associate member netElastic Systems, and Tom Mitchell took some time to introduce netElastic to our membership and talk about some of the challenges they are working to help broadband providers overcome. Founded in 2016, netElastic has worked with 40% of the top carriers in the world and many smaller carriers to understand their network infrastructure challenges. Based on broadband provider input, netElastic developed one of the first software-based broadband network gateways (BNGs) from the ground up. netElastic vBNG is now deployed globally and has been nominated for numerous industry innovation awards. CLICK HERE to watch our Member Spotlight and learn more about netElastic Systems!
The FCC has released the results of a survey of ACP recipients, and the data clearly shows the impact that the Affordable Connectivity Program has had. Among key statistics in the survey report:
Clearly the sunset of the ACP will hit rural Americans and low-income Americans hard. While bill in Congress would restore funding for ACP through the end of the year, there has been little action on this legislation. ACP enrollment stopped in February and the last full month of the ACP subsidy is expected to be April. CLICK HERE for a PDF of the FCC's Fact Sheet on the ACP survey.
The March open meeting of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 14th has a couple of items of interest to broadband providers.
CLICK HERE for more details on the FCC meeting and a link to watch the meeting live online.
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