Webinars

Please join USAC for a webinar overview of the FCC performance measures testing requirements and the process for generating new subscriber location samples for testing, as well as a walk-though of the Performance Measures Module (PMM)

Carriers participating in the Alternative Connect America Cost Model (Original ACAM), Revised Alternative Connect America Cost Model (Revised ACAM), Rural Broadband Experiments (RBE) and Alaska Plan funds must obtain new random samples of subscriber locations for ongoing quarterly network speed and latency testing in 2025 in order to comply with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Performance Measures testing framework. In addition, carriers participating in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) must obtain their first random samples of subscriber locations to begin quarterly pre-testing in 2025 to comply with the FCC rules.

Please join USAC for a webinar overview of the HUBB reporting requirements, a walk-through of the system and an explanation of the HUBB filing process for Enhanced ACAM carriers.

Carriers participating in modernized Connect America Fund (CAF) programs with defined fixed broadband buildout obligations have until March 3, 2025, to file and certify deployment data with USAC’s High Cost Universal Broadband (HUBB) portal showing where they built out mass-market, high-speed Internet service in calendar year 2024 or certify that they have “no locations to upload.” Please join USAC for a webinar overview of the HUBB filing requirements and a walk through of the system.

This webinar will also cover the HUBB filing process for carriers participating in the Enhanced Alternative Connect America Cost Model (Enhanced ACAM) program, which will be filing in the HUBB for the first time and will be reporting deployment data using the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric (Fabric), a single, standardized dataset of all locations in the U.S. where fixed broadband access service is available or could be installed.

Please join USAC to learn how to avoid common findings of High Cost beneficiary audits.

In this session, USAC’s High Cost and Internal Audit staff will discuss the most common carrier errors discovered during High Cost beneficiary audits conducted in fiscal year 2023, including:

• Improper inclusion of inappropriate/unallowable expenses
• Inadequate documentation, inaccurate data and misclassified assets, expenses and/or liabilities
• Improperly recorded affiliate transactions
• Improper allocation methodology to classify/separate regulated and non-regulated activities, and inaccurate/misclassified access line and loop counts
• Inaccurate calculation of depreciation