Company: LILA
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001712184-25-000031
Chunk: 73

Company: Liberty Latin America Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 73
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 access” to broadband, defined as “policies or practices, not justified by genuine issues of technical or economic feasibility, that differentially impact consumers’ access to broadband internet access service based on their income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion or national origin, or are intended to have such differential impact” (also known as the Digital Discrimination Rules). As of their adoption on November 15, 2023, the Digital Discrimination Rules have been contested in court. Judicial challenges have been consolidated and are currently under review by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Liberty Puerto Rico participated in the ACP, which was known as the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program until it was renamed by the Infrastructure Act in 2021. The ACP provided a long-term broadband affordability benefit program to low-income customers and concluded on June 1, 2024. 

Similarly, Liberty Puerto Rico was also a participating provider in the ECF, a $7.17 billion FCC program that sought to help schools and libraries provide the tools and services they provided to their communities during the Covid-19 pandemic. The ECF concluded on June 30, 2024.

On November 17, 2022, the FCC issued a report and order and a further notice of proposed rulemaking adopting rules that require broadband providers to display, at the point of sale, labels that disclose certain information regarding broadband prices, introductory rates, data allowances and broadband speeds. Broadband providers also must include links to their network management practices, privacy policies, and the ACP. Broadband providers with more than 100,000 subscriber lines must comply with the majority of the label requirements by April 10, 2024. The FCC also seeks comment regarding the adoption of additional disclosure requirements regarding price and performance information, among other matters. The ACP concluded in 2024.

The Infrastructure Act also established the Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Grant Program (MMG). On June 15, 2023, the NTIA awarded LCPR a grant of approximately $9.3 million to fund new middle mile infrastructure in areas where LCPR has been awarded UPR Funds for last-mile services. The NTIA also administers the BEAD Program which will provide funding for high-speed broadband deployment in the 50 states and territories, including Puerto Rico and USVI. NTIA has allocated approximately $334.6 million and $27.1 million in BEAD Program funds to Puerto Rico and USVI, respectively. Liberty Mobile Puerto Rico and Liberty Mobile U.S. Virgin Islands