The FCC adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) today that seeks comment on previously established plans to use a reverse auction process to award funding to cover some of the costs of making 5G service available in areas where…
Reverse Auction
Nebraska Gets Set for $13 Million Rural Broadband Funding Auction
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…
RDOF Analysis Yields Recommended Changes for the Next Auction
When the FCC initially announced the results of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) rural broadband auction, the commission touted the fact that almost all eligible areas that had winning bids and that 85% of those areas are slated to…
RDOF Winner Map: Fiber, Fixed Wireless Win Big, Winners Commit to Gigabit Speeds
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…
RDOF Auction Winners: Charter, SpaceX, Windstream, $9.2B for Rural Broadband Awarded
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…
RDOF Auction Ends, Results Expected Soon
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…
RDOF Auction Appears to Be Winding Down
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…
On the Eve of the Historic $16B RDOF Auction, We Get Down to the Details
The historic Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction will get underway tomorrow. It’s a reverse auction that will award up to $16 billion to cover some of the costs of bringing broadband to unserved areas – a topic Telecompetitor covers…
Final RDOF Auction Bidder List: 386 Bidders to Pursue $16B for Rural Broadband
Nearly 400 entities (386) have made the final RDOF auction bidder list, qualifying them to bid in Phase 1 of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, which will award up to $16 billion to cover some of the costs…
Final RDOF Auction Eligible Areas List Released
The FCC released the final list of census blocks eligible for the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase 1 auction, which will award up to $16 billion to cover some of the costs of deploying broadband to areas that have no…
FCC Set to Adopt 5G Fund for Rural America Rules — and the Decision on Eligible Areas is . . .
The FCC plans to vote later this month on rules for the $9 billion 5G Fund for Rural America. The plan is to use a two-phase reverse auction to award funding to cover some of the costs of deploying mobile…
Nextlink Xstreamair Purchase Expands Nextlink Fixed Wireless Network
Fixed wireless broadband provider Nextlink Internet said it has purchased Iowa-based Xtreamair, another fixed wireless provider. The Nextlink Xstreamair purchase will expand Nextlink’s footprint into western Iowa, and Nextlink said it will expand the Xstreamair network so that subscribers will…
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