SUMMARY

As a follow up to our June 30, 2025 Industry Alert, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released a Public Notice, which provides an updated interim eligible locations file for the Enhanced Alternative Connect America Model (E-ACAM) support mechanism recipients.

The updated file incorporates:

• All adjudicated challenges,
• Updated funding commitment data from the current version of the Broadband Funding Map and
• Ongoing deduplication process, which is complete in 40 states

Deduplication is the result of the FCC working with NTIA and state broadband offices to determine the existence of enforceable commitments from other funding programs to deploy to currently unserved locations within E-ACAM areas, which would result in locations not being eligible for support.

The FCC will release an updated eligible location list and the methodology to recalculate support for E-ACAM support for those carriers whose total number of obligated locations decreases by more than 5% after deduplication is completed for the remining states.

WHAT IMPACTS ARE ANTICIPATED

Providers will be able to utilize this interim file to project the potential E-ACAM impacts to final build-out obligations and funding.