Competitive Carrier Line Count Report and Self-Certification as a Rural Carrier

CONNECT AMERICA FUND PHASE I

File Format for Deployment Location Information for
Incremental Support

Carriers accepting Connect America Fund Phase I incremental support are required to deploy broadband to a specified number of locations, the number depending on how much of the carrier’s eligible funding it accepts. Carriers accepting funding are further required to identify the locations to which they will deploy, no later than one year after the date they accept funding. Carriers must provide the following information for each location, in electronic format. Specifically, carriers must submit a .csv file (comma separated values file) detailing, for each location to be deployed to in satisfaction of their deployment requirement, the information described below.

Record Format for Phase I Incremental Support Location Information
Field Name	Description	Type	Example
GEOID10	2010 Census Block FIPS code of the location	Text	"511650120001030"
OCN	NECA-Assigned Company Code for the operating company serving the location	Text	"0233"
SAC	Study Area Code of the location	Text	"190233"
CLLI	Telcordia-specified eight-character Common Language Location Identifier (CLLI) code for the ILEC wire center of the location	Text	"AAPKOKXA"
LAT	Latitude of the location to 6 decimal places	Float	38.274538
LONG	Longitude of the location to 6 decimal places	Float	-78.688942

Please note that a sample file for submission is available from USAC. If information for a column is not available for a given location, please leave that column blank.