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Key Partnerships Create FCC Compliance Ecosystem Using Broadband Forum Standards Posted on Share
Press Release
Lake Saint Louis, Mo., May 4, 2020 – Broadband providers that have been building networks under Federal Communications Commission (FCC) funding programs such as Alternative Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM), Connect America Fund (CAF) and Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) must soon submit network performance on those new builds to the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), the administrative authority for the FCC, per FCC order DA-18-710.
This order specifically endorses the Broadband Forum TR-143 standard to meet their exacting network performance requirements for all service tiers up to and beyond one gigabit per second. The Broadband Forum defined diagnostic standards in TR-143 long before FCC compliance requirements were contemplated. These standards had to be updated once FCC compliance was introduced and are now a viable solution for any F