Federal Communications Commission "FCC/DA XX-XXX" DA 21-758 Released: June 28, 2021 WIRELINE COMPETITION BUREAU UPDATES LIST OF FIXED COMPETITIVE ELIGIBLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIERS RECEIVING PHASE-DOWN SUPPORT WC Docket No. 10-90 With this Public Notice, the Wireline Competition Bureau provides an updated report showing the legacy support amounts associated with competitive eligible telecommunications carriers (competitive ETCs) offering service to fixed locations. As of June 1, 2019, June 2019 was the first month after the first authorization of any Connect America Fund (CAF) Phase II auction support nationwide. Wireline Competition Bureau Announces Beginning of Phase Down of Legacy Support for Price Cap Carriers and Fixed Competitive Eligible Telecommunications Carriers After Authorization of Connect America Fund Phase II Auction Support, WC Docket No. 10-90, Public Notice, 34 FCC Rcd 3173, 3174 (WCB 2019) (citing Connect America Fund, WC Docket No. 10-90, Report and Order, 34 FCC Rcd 807, 812, para. 17 (2019) (Phase II Transitions Order); Connect America Fund Phase II Auction Support Authorized for 459 Winning Bids, AU Docket No. 17-182, WC Docket No. 10-90, Public Notice, 34 FCC Rcd 3142 (WCB 2019)); see also Wireline Competition Bureau Updates List of Fixed Competitive Eligible Telecommunications Carriers Receiving Phase-Down Support, WC Docket No. 10-90, Public Notice, 35 FCC Rcd 6543 (WCB 2020). fixed competitive ETCs began receiving legacy support at a reduced level. In previous versions of the report, one such fixed competitive ETC, Mid-Rivers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (Mid-Rivers) (SAC 489001) in Montana, was inadvertently identified as Mid-Rivers’s mobile competitive ETC (SAC 489005), which has since relinquished its ETC designation. Montana Public Service Commission, In the Matter of the Relinquishment of Cable and Cellular Communications as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier, Docket No. 2019.06.037, Notice of Commission Action (Aug. 14, 2019). The corrected report is available at https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-357433A1.xlsx. The list of fixed competitive ETCs subject to the phase-down of their legacy support now properly includes Mid-Rivers (SAC 489001) in Montana. We therefore direct USAC to correct the amounts of support SAC 489001 and 489005 should have received had they been properly identified, effective June 1, 2019. See Phase II Transitions Order, 34 FCC Rcd at 812-13, paras. 17-18. For further information, please contact Stephen Wang, Telecommunications Access Policy Division, Wireline Competition Bureau, at (202) 418-7400 or via email at Stephen.Wang@fcc.gov. – FCC – 2