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record. One model, submitted by the ABC Coalition, estimates the cost of providing service to the entire
nation." The second model, submitted by ACS, estimates the cost of serving Alaska only.'6
5. This Public Notice is the next step of an open, deliberative process to develop the final
model design and inputs. The Bureau anticipates that, in addition to comments in response to this Public
Notice, there will be additional opportunities for further public input before a final model is adopted and
support levels are established."7 The further opportunities may include additional comment periods or
workshop discussions, and may address in further detail matters raised in this Public Notice or questions
not reached by this Public Notice, such as the appropriate prices to assign to specific cost inputs to the
model. The Bureau may modify model design and inputs, including potentially combining elements of
multiple models into a new model, in response to input it receives from the public.'8
HI. SUMMARY
6. This Notice identifies several significant threshold model design decisions and seeks
comment on specific proposals for the design of the model and data inputs to be used. This is not an
exhaustive list of such issues, but represents the next step in the open, deliberative process to determine
the design of the model the Bureau will ultimately adopt. The Bureau also seeks comment on
commenters' identification of additional issues that need to be developed in the record of this proceeding.
7. This Notice first seeks comment on what wireline network technology and design the
model should use to calculate costs. This question includes the important threshold matters of whether
the model should should presume green-field or brown-field deployment and whether the model should
estimate the costs of Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) or Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) (including Fiber-to-
the-Node (FTTN)) technology. Closely related is the question of what terminal value to assign to the
modeled network - book value, economic value, or zero value. The Notice then seeks comment on
whether the model should estimate the total costs of serving the entire service area so that shared costs
may be distributed between areas that are eligible and ineligible for support or estimate only the
standalone costs of areas eligible for support. Next, the Notice seeks comment on how shared network
costs should be distributed to the census-block (or smaller) area. The Notice also asks whether the model
should calculate support for areas to which broadband has already been deployed or only for unserved
is Letter from Jonathan Banks, USTelecom, to Marlene H. Dortch, Federal Communications Commission, filed Feb.
13, 2012 (attaching updated documentation of CQBAT model) (CQBAT letter). This submission updated the ABC
Coalition's prior proposal for a forward-looking model, which had been submitted prior to the release of the
USF/ICC Transformation Order. Letter from Robert W. Quinn, Jr., AT&T, Steve Davis, CenturyLink, Michael T.
Skrivan, FairPoint, Kathleen Q. Abernathy, Frontier, Kathleen Grillo, Verizon, and Michael D. Rhoda, Windstream,
to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, FCC, WC Docket No. 10-90 et al., Attach. I at 13 (filed July 29, 2011) (ABC
Plan). The ABC Coalition model was submitted pursuant to a protective order adopted by the Bureau. See Connect
America Fund, High-Cost Universal Service Support, WC Docket Nos. 10-90 and 05-337, Second Supplemental
Protective Order, 27 FCC Red 1503 (2012).
16 Comments of Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc., WC Docket Nos. 10-90 and 05-337 (filed Feb. 1,
2012); See Connect America Fund, High-Cost Universal Service Support, WC Docket Nos. 10-90 and 05-337,
Second Protective Order, 27 FCC Red 1494, 1494 n.2 (2012).
17 Request for Models PN, 26 FCC Red at 16837, para. 3.
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