FCC OKs $311M in RDOF for 48 Providers
The FCC authorized $311 million in Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction support for 48 providers, the agency said Monday. Long-form applicants must submit a letter of credit for each state in which they received authorization and an opinion…
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letter from outside legal counsel by 6 p.m. EDT Aug. 9. “This is a significant down payment on broadband deployment,” said acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. The FCC offered 197 winning bidders, including Cox, Frontier, LTD Broadband and Starlink, the opportunity to default on bids for areas already served without penalties after groups raised concerns (see 2012210026). A list of areas where winning bidders opted not to pursue buildout was also released. The areas will “immediately become available for other broadband funding opportunities” and defaulting bidders are “subject to enforcement penalties as warranted.” The Wireline Bureau denied petitions to waive the June 7 deadline to receive eligible telecom carrier designation from AB Indiana for its bids in Florida, and LTD Broadband for California, Kansas and Oklahoma. Both “failed to engage in good faith efforts to pursue and obtain” the designation, the order said, and the bureau plans to release a public notice finding both providers in default. Free Press Research Director Derek Turner said in a statement it’s "encouraging that Acting Chairwoman Rosenworcel wants to get this right" and the FCC "seems determined to do the due diligence" that then-Chairman Ajit Pai "skipped to ensure that federal money actually connects real people ... to affordable services.”