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…
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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…
CBRS Auction Closes After Just 24 Bidding Days, Raising Over $4.5 Billion
Just 24 bidding days after it kicked off, the CBRS auction has closed, raising $4.585 billion. More than 91.1% of available licenses had winning bids – 20.625 out of 22,631 total licenses, the FCC said. Information about winning bidders is…
After Challenges, FCC Releases Revised RDOF Eligible Area List, Identifies 5.3 Million RDOF Eligible Locations
The FCC yesterday released a revised list of areas eligible for the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund RDOF auction scheduled to begin in October. The commission initially released a preliminary list of eligible areas in March, which was followed by a…
Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act Proposes $100 Billion for Broadband
The Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act, introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday, would make over $100 billion available for broadband initiatives. The majority of the funding — $80 billion – would go toward building broadband infrastructure, primarily rural…
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