The FCC reports…
Consistent with the Commission’s Enhanced A-CAM Order, the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) authorizes 368 rate-of-return companies that elected offers of Enhanced Alternative Connect America Cost Model (Enhanced A-CAM) support to receive model-based support.[1] Authorization Report 1, released today, shows the authorization amount and initial deployment obligations for each carrier that elected an offer.[2] The authorizations specify support to the electing companies for a 15-year period beginning January 1, 2024, in exchange for these companies committing to deploy broadband service of at least 100/20 Mbps service to over 700,000 unserved locations across the United States, and maintain or improve existing 100/20 Mbps service to approximately 2 million locations.
Below are the companies serving Minnesota. This list is slightly different than the list I shared earlier in October. Rural Communications Holding Corporation was not on that list.
| Holding Company | Current Funding | Required Locations | Carrier-Served Locations | ||
| ACAM and ACAM II Subtotal | 398,975 | 989,720 | |||
| CAF BLS Subtotal | 54,054 | 510,995 | |||
| Total | 453,029 | 1,500,715 | |||
| Albany Mutual Telephone Association | ACAM | 26 | 3,831 | ||
| Alliance Communications Cooperative, Inc. | ACAM | 29 | 693 | ||
| Arvig Enterprises, Inc. | ACAM | 20,621 | 50,966 | ||
| Benton Cooperative Telephone Company | ACAM | 11 | 5,826 | ||
| Rural Communications Holding Corporation | ACAM | 1,542 | 17,885 | ||
| Consolidated Telephone Company | BLS | 26 | 13,656 | ||
| Emily Cooperative Telephone Company | BLS | – | 2,556 | ||
| Garden Valley Telephone Company | ACAM | 227 | 17,786 | ||
| Gardonville Cooperative Telephone Association | ACAM | 1,732 | 2,039 | ||
| Halstad Telephone Company | ACAM | – | 1,629 | ||
| Harmony Telephone Company | ACAM | 460 | 535 | ||
| Johnson Telephone Company | ACAM | 424 | 2,842 | ||
| Kasson & Mantorville Telephone Company | ACAM | 116 | 4,974 | ||
| Manchester-Hartland Telephone Company | BLS | – | 630 | ||
| Park Region Mutual Telephone Company | ACAM | 1,255 | 5,032 | ||
| Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative | ACAM | 163 | 15,617 | ||
| Spring Grove Communications | ACAM | 4 | 1,359 | ||
| Telephone & Data Systems, incl. UScellular | ACAM | 11,044 | 10,975 | ||
| Upsala Cooperative Telephone Association | ACAM | 2 | 1,208 | ||
| West Central Telephone Assn. | ACAM | – | 5,529 | ||
| Wikstrom Telephone Company, Inc. | ACAM | 1,155 | 8,475 | ||
| Tri-Co Technologies, LLC | BLS | 494 | 2,964 |