; and (B) shortfalls in sufficient funding of the high-cost programs that could adversely affect the sustainability of services or reasonable comparability of rates that are supported by those programs. (2) Purposes In carrying out paragraph (1), the Commission shall use amounts made available under subsection (d) in an efficient and cost-effective manner only— (A) for the assessment of, and to provide subsidies in a technology-neutral manner through a competitive process (subject to weighting preferences for performance quality and other service metrics as the Commission may find appropriate) to providers for support of, deployment of broadband-capable infrastructure in high-cost rural areas that the Commission determines are unserved by fixed terrestrial broadband internet access service at a download speed of not less than 25 megabits per second and an upload speed of not less than 3 megabits per second (or such higher speed as the Commission may determine appropriate based upon an evolving definition of universal service); and (B) to assess, and provide subsidies to providers to enable providers to sustain, broadband internet access service in any rural area in which— (i) only one provider of fixed terrestrial broadband internet access service operates