ACA Connects is a trade organization representing over 500 smaller and medium-sized, independent companies that provide broadband, video, and phone services. It acts as an advocate for its members on federal legislative and regulatory telecommunication matters, ensuring fair treatment in the marketplace. ACA Connects strives to promote the provision of vital communication services to communities across America, particularly in smaller and rural markets. Keywords associated with ACA Connects include broadband, telecommunications, advocacy, and regulatory affairs.
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ACA Connects is an organization of more than 700 small and medium-sized telecommunications providers that recommended the FCC publicly auction the C-band spectrum and use some of the proceeds to replace satellite links with fiber.
ACA Connects, Charter Communications, and the Competitive Carriers Association proposed using some auction proceeds to build fiber to replace satellite C-band infrastructure and estimated that task would cost $6,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 and take five years to complete.
ACA Connects, a trade association of 700 small and mid-size telecom providers, proposed in July—with Charter Communications and the Competitive Carriers Association as partners—repurposing 370 megahertz of C-band (350 usable megahertz and a 20 megahertz guard band).
ACA Connects has estimated the value of the full 500 megahertz of C-band spectrum at up to $60,000,000,000.
ACA Connects partnered with the Competitive Carriers Association and Charter Communications on a C-band spectrum proposal.
The ACA Connects coalition proposed that the FCC lead an auction for 350 megahertz protected by a 20-megahertz guard band and use proceeds to replace satellite links with fiber.
ACA Connects estimated the sale of 350 megahertz of C-band spectrum could generate $60,000,000,000 and that $6,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 of that would cover the switchover to fiber.
The FCC is considering at least two other C-band repurposing plans: a T-Mobile plan to repurpose all 500 megahertz and a Charter/ACA Connects/Competitive Carriers Association plan to repurpose 370 megahertz.
Charter Communications, ACA Connects, and the Competitive Carriers Association filed a counterplan with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on 2019-07-01 to repurpose 370 megahertz of satellite C-band spectrum through a public auction.
Charter, ACA Connects, and the CCA estimate the cost to transition video programmers and television channel distributors from satellite to fiber at $6,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000.
ACA Connects estimates that the majority of the United States could complete the C-band switchover to fiber in three years, with some outlier regions needing five years.