Company: LILA
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001712184-25-000031
Chunk: 74

Company: Liberty Latin America Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 74
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 have submitted comments regarding the draft BEAD Program action plans in Puerto Rico and USVI, respectively. Of note, in Fiscal Year 2021, Puerto Rico also allocated $400 million in state funds to the Broadband Infrastructure Fund administered by the Puerto Rico Broadband Program, to support service expansion efforts in unserved and underserved areas. 

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Fixed-Line Telephony Services. Liberty Puerto Rico offers fixed-line telephony services, including both circuit-switched telephony and VoIP. Its circuit-switched telephony services are subject to FCC and local regulations regarding the quality and technical aspects of service. All local telecommunications providers, including Liberty Puerto Rico, are obligated to provide telephony service to all customers within the service area, subject to certain exceptions under FCC regulations, and must give long distance telephony service providers equal access to their network. Under the Communications Act, CLECs, like us, may require interconnection with the ILEC, and the ILEC must negotiate a reasonable and nondiscriminatory interconnection agreement with the CLEC. Such arrangement requires the ILEC to interconnect with the CLEC at any technically feasible point within the ILEC’s network, provide access to certain unbundled network elements of the ILEC’s network, and allow physical collocation of the CLEC’s equipment in the ILEC’s facilities to permit interconnection or access to unbundled network element services. Therefore, we have the right to interconnect with the ILEC, PRTC. We have negotiated an interconnection agreement with PRTC, allowing for the physical interconnection between both companies.

All of the circuit-switched telephony and VoIP services of Liberty Puerto Rico are subject to a charge for the federal USF, which is a fund created under the Communications Act to subsidize telecommunication services in high-cost areas, to provide telecommunications services for low-income consumers, and to provide certain subsidies for schools, libraries and rural healthcare facilities. The FCC has redirected the focus of USF to support broadband deployment in high-cost areas. In addition, our circuit-switched telephony and VoIP services are subject to a charge for a local Puerto Rico Universal Service Fund, which was created by law to subsidize telecommunications services for low-income families under the federal USF Lifeline and Link-Up programs.

The FCC has adopted other regulations for VoIP services, including the requirement that interconnected VoIP providers and facilities-based broadband internet access providers must comply with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which requires carriers to provide certain assistance to federal law enforcement