1. 2017 OTA Technical Conference
Location Reporting
2017 OTA Technical Conference By
Thomas Neal – FWA, Inc.

2. Locations and Mapping History Location What constitutes a location?
Geocoding
Methods and strategies
HUBB System
Problems and solutions

3. Brief History of Mapping
Study Area Boundaries
Initially kept by the state PUCs.
No electronic copies
No reconciliation

4. Brief History of Mapping

5. Brief History of Mapping

6. Brief History of Mapping
Required an ESRI shapefile
Study Area Boundaries DA (November 6, 2012)

7. What is a Location?
Residential Locations For purposes of filing residential location data with USAC, carriers should report the housing units (as defined by the Census Bureau) in their eligible service area to which they have made broadband service available.
Business Locations Filers should report the locations of businesses to which they have made mass market broadband service available. Filers should only report the locations of businesses that they would expect to demand consumer-grade broadband service.

8. What is a Location? Housing Unit (As defined by the Census Bureau)
A housing unit is a house, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters. Separate living quarters are those
in which the occupants do not live and eat with other persons in the structure and which have direct access from the outside of the building or through a common hall. For vacant units, the criteria of separateness and direct access are applied to the intended occupants whenever possible. If the information cannot be obtained, the criteria are applied to the previous occupants. Tents and boats are excluded if vacant, used for business, or used for extra sleeping space or vacations. Vacant seasonal/migratory mobile homes are included in the count of vacant seasonal/migratory housing units. Living quarters of the following types are excluded from the housing unit inventory: Dormitories, bunkhouses, and barracks; quarters in predominantly transient hotels, motels, and the like, except those occupied by persons who consider the hotel their usual place of residence; quarters in institutions, general hospitals, and military installations except those occupied by staff members or resident employees who have separate living arrangements.

9. What is a Location? DO report:
All residential and business locations as described above
Locations to which service could be provided within 10 business days
An apartment building (multiple dwelling unit) or multi-unit business location in a single record
DO NOT report:
The location of the network’s pedestal, box, or node
Empty parcels of land
Houses or buildings under construction
Group quarters, such as dormitories, nursing homes, residential treatment centers, military installations, or correctional facilities – as residential locations
Community anchor institutions (regardless of the size). Community anchor institutions include such entities as schools, libraries, hospitals and other medical providers, public safety entities, institutions of higher education, and community support organizations that facilitate greater use of broadband by vulnerable populations, including low-income, the unemployed, and the aged.
Wireless infrastructure sites, such as cell towers
The locations of businesses expected to purchase dedicated high capacity transmission, such as business data services
Structures that are open to the elements—that is, the roof, walls, windows, and/or doors no longer protect the interior from the elements
Vacant structures that are condemned or are to be demolished (often indicated by a sign on the structure)
Boats, recreational vehicles (RVs), tents, caves, and similar types of shelter that no one is using as a residence

10. What data is required? What are they really asking for?
Study Area Code
Latitude
Longitude
Date of Deployment
Download/Upload Speed Tier
Address
City
State
Zip
# of Units
Carrier Location ID (for your internal use, this can be blank)

11. Geocoding When do they want it?
CAF Phase II (Price Cap) should have reported locations deployed in 2016 as of July 1, 2017.
CAF-BLS recipients must file locations deployed between May 25, 2016 and December 31, 2016, as well as locations upgraded/deployed in by March 1, 2018.
A-CAM recipients must file locations upgraded/deployed in 2017 by March 1, 2018.
Get ready! A-CAM companies must file all locations previously served (2016) by March 1, 2019.

12. Geocoding What data do they really want?
Carriers must report latitude/longitude coordinates to six decimal places
Six decimal places equates to 0.11m (~4.33 inches)

13. Geocoding - Useless facts
The sign tells us whether we are north or south, east or west on the globe.
A nonzero hundreds digit tells us we're using longitude, not latitude!
The tens digit gives a position to about 1,000 kilometers. It gives us useful information about what continent or ocean we are on.
The units digit (one decimal degree) gives a position up to 111 kilometers (60 nautical miles, about 69 miles). It can tell us roughly what large state or country we are in.
The first decimal place is worth up to 11.1 km: it can distinguish the position of one large city from a neighboring large city.
The second decimal place is worth up to 1.1 km: it can separate one village from the next.
The third decimal place is worth up to 110 m: it can identify a large agricultural field or institutional campus.
The fourth decimal place is worth up to 11 m: it can identify a parcel of land. It is comparable to the typical accuracy of an uncorrected GPS unit with no interference.
The fifth decimal place is worth up to 1.1 m: it distinguish trees from each other. Accuracy to this level with commercial GPS units can only be achieved with differential correction.

14. Geocoding - Useless facts
The sixth decimal place is worth up to 0.11 m: you can use this for laying out structures in detail, for designing landscapes, building roads. It should be more than good enough for tracking movements of glaciers and rivers. This can be achieved by taking painstaking measures with GPS, such as differentially corrected GPS.
The seventh decimal place is worth up to 11 mm: this is good for much surveying and is near the limit of what GPS-based techniques can achieve.
The eighth decimal place is worth up to 1.1 mm: this is good for charting motions of tectonic plates and movements of volcanoes. Permanent, corrected, constantly-running GPS base stations might be able to achieve this level of accuracy.
The ninth decimal place is worth up to 110 microns: we are getting into the range of microscopy. For almost any conceivable application with earth positions, this is overkill and will be more precise than the accuracy of any surveying device.
Ten or more decimal places indicates a computer or calculator was used and that no attention was paid to the fact that the extra decimals are useless. Be careful, because unless you are the one reading these numbers off the device, this can indicate low quality processing!

15. Google Earth

16. Google Earth
Tools  Options

17. Geocoding – Do YOU have to do it?
Questions to answer:
Did you remain legacy or transition to ACAM?
Are you built out (and does the FCC know it?)
If you are > 80% deployed at 10/1 mbps per the filing, report new/upgraded locations on FCC Form 481.
If you are < 80% deployed at 10/1 mbps per the filing, report new/upgraded locations on HUBB.
In Oklahoma, only 12 ILECs met the 80% buildout requirement.
(If in doubt, check here:

18. How do we report it? HUBB (High Cost Universal Broadband)
The 2016 Rate-of-Reform Return Order directed USAC to develop an online portal to accept geo-located broadband information and related certifications.
The HUBB portal is accessible through USAC's E-File system.
Data will be submitted in a .csv file.
The forms and validator too are available here:

19. Milestones

20. Penalties for “Compliance Gaps”
Tier 1 ( 5-15% )
FCC/WCB issues a letter and the company will have to report new lines quarterly.
Tier 2 ( 15-25% )
Tier 1 penalties plus USAC will withhold 15% of the company’s monthly support until the company is under the 15% threshold.
Tier 3 ( 25-50% )
Tier 1 penalties plus USAC will withhold 25% of the company’s monthly support until the company is under the 25% threshold.

21. Penalties for “Compliance Gaps”
Tier 4a ( >50%)
Tier 1 penalties plus USAC will withhold 50% of the company’s monthly support until the company is under the ` 50% threshold.
Tier 4b ( >50%)
After 6 months of >50%, USAC will withhold 100% of the monthly support and will commence with a recovery action equal to the compliance gap percentage plus 10%.
FINAL MILESTONE
If a carrier does not reach their final milestone within 12 months from the fate of that milestone... USAC will recover the percentage of support equal to 1.89 times the average amount of support per location received, plus 10 %.

22. What to remember
Carriers must report locations where there is an actual subscriber, as well as locations where a carrier could offer service within 10 business days.
CAF-BLS (legacy) Rate-of-return carriers are only required to file (and will only receive credit toward their build-out milestones for) locations deployed or upgraded starting on or after May 25, 2016.
A-CAM Rate-of-return carriers must file (and will also get credit for) pre-existing deployment. They will have until March 1, 2019, to file all pre-existing locations in the HUBB portal.

23. Thank You! Thomas Neal FWA, Inc. Phone: (918) 298-1618
Cell Phone: (918)