A broad coalition of Republican and Democratic senators and representatives have sent a letter to the FCC asking the commission to thoroughly vet RDOF auction winners. At stake is $9 billion in rural broadband funding awarded through the reverse auction,…
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) has asked the FCC to reject efforts by West Virginia legislators to block Frontier Communications’ successful bid for Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) funding. Frontier won $247 million to serve almost 79,000 locations in…
How suitable is gigabit fixed wireless for rural areas? It’s no longer an academic question, thanks to the recently completed Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, a reverse auction that awarded funding to provide high-speed broadband to areas where such…
Allen Township, a suburb of Marysville, Ohio will host a pilot of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband system, making it the latest Starlink satellite broadband trial customer — a small but growing group. The pilot trial is the largest in the…
Now that the dust has settled a bit, it’s time to do some RDOF analysis. And there is no shortage of things to analyze. RDOF is a historic shift in public policy for rural broadband. What was once the funding…
Consolidated Communications announced a major fiber network expansion that will add 300K new gigabit capable locations. This Consolidated fiber expansion is funded in part by the recently concluded $9B RDOF auction. Consolidated won close to $59 million to bring broadband…
The top 10 winners in the recently completed Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase 1 auction will take home just over three quarters (76%) of the total $9.2 billion in funding awarded through the auction. As an RDOF winner map…
Just an hour or so after the FCC released the news that Charter was the biggest winner in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, measured by locations, Charter Chairman and CEO Tom Rutledge offered some insight on the Charter…
Charter Communications, bidding as CCO Holdings, was the biggest Rural Digital Opportunity Fund auction winner, measured by number of locations. The cable company won $1.22 billion in the auction, which was completed early last week, to bring service to over…
Phase one of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) rural broadband auction has ended. According to the FCC, the results will be released in “the coming days.” The RDOF Phase One auction was expected to award up to $16 billion…
The Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase 1 auction appears to be winding down. In recent days, the duration of auction rounds dropped from six to four hours and then again to two and a half hours, suggesting that bidding…
The FCC will soon award up to $16B from the $20.4B Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) to expand high bandwidth connectivity to unserved locations, providing winning bidders with the financial resources that help overcome the business case challenge in these…
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