As promised, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr offered more detail today about why he is unhappy about the commission’s decision to reject SpaceX’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) winning bid. SpaceX tentatively won $885 million to cover some of the costs…
AUGUST 12, 2022 -COLUMBIA, S.C. — Spectrum today announced the launch of Spectrum Internet, Mobile, TV and Voice services to 160 homes and small businesses in Fairfield County. Spectrum’s newly constructed fiber-optic network buildout in Fairfield County is part of the…
The FCC’s announcement yesterday that it would not be awarding over $2 billion in Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) to two of the largest winning bidders — SpaceX/Starlink and LTD Broadband – means that nearly a quarter (23.7%) of the…
The news that has been somewhat suspected for some time has been confirmed today. The FCC has rejected the long form RDOF applications from SpaceX and LTD Broadband, effectively denying them billions of dollars in funding collectively. The long form…
The FCC has authorized Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) money for six more companies. All six authorizations are for smaller companies, and the funding amounts authorized are comparatively small. The RDOF program covers some of the costs of deploying broadband…
The FCC late Friday proposed fines totaling $4.3 million against 73 companies for defaulted bids in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction. More than half of the proposed fines are for a single company — LTD Broadband, which was…
JULY 21, 2022 – MEDFORD, Ore. — Spectrum today announced construction will soon be underway on a fiber-optic network expansion project that will bring Spectrum Internet, Mobile, TV and Voice services to more than 4,000 homes and small businesses in Jackson…
The FCC released over 80 pages of authorized bids in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction late last week. All but part of one page were bids for Mercury Wireless, which had funding released for deployments in Indiana, Michigan,…
It’s been 18 months since the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction was completed and the FCC has not yet released funding for five of the top 10 winning bidders. It’s beginning to look like that isn’t going to happen,…
The Nebraska Public Service Commission has begun accepting applications for a reverse auction that will award up to $13 million for rural broadband deployments. The commission is exercising an option laid out in state legislation that gives the commission the…
The average download speed delivered to U.S. SpaceX Starlink satellite broadband subscribers increased 38% in the first quarter of 2022 compared to the same period a year earlier, according to Ookla, the company responsible for a widely used broadband speed…
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