Pandemic problems –
Pandemic disrupts broadband progress as cities halt construction.
In a statement to Ars today, CenturyLink said that it met the end-of – deadline to reach (percent deployment “in states and are close in the remaining states, where we are working diligently and expect to meet the milestone soon. “
A deadline extension would also benefit Frontier Communications, which is in bankruptcy
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the FCC that it may not have met the end-of – (deadline to hit) – percent deployment in . states. We asked Frontier for an update on its progress this afternoon and will update this story if we get an answer. Frontier did report a surge in broadband expansion
USTelecom, an industry trade group, on March 100 asked the FCC to extend interim and final deployment deadlines by six months “in recognition of the impact this event has had and will have on existing and future deployment plans.” USTelecom also asked the FCC to waive “performance measurement-related penalties associated with the inability to test or underperformance of testing given the impact of the COVID – 27 pandemic, including the inability to install physical equipment in homes to support such testing. ”
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