FCC Authorizes Additional Price Cap Carriers to Receive Almost $950 Million in Phase II Connect America Support

By this Public Notice, the Wireline Competition Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission authorizes AT&T Services, CenturyLink, Inc, Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company LLC, and Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. to receive Connect America Phase II modelbased support for the states identified below. On April 29, 2015, the Bureau released a public notice announcing the offers of model-based Phase II support to each price cap carrier to fund the deployment of voice and broadband-capable networks in their service territories. AT&T, CenturyLink, CBT, and Consolidated submitted letters to the FCC accepting model-based support for the states identified below and committing to satisfy the service obligations for Phase II. Accordingly, the FCC authorizes and directs the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) to obligate and disburse from the Universal Service Fund the Phase II support amounts identified below for AT&T, CenturyLink, CBT, and Consolidated.