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Comment by chroma

If you look at the authorized bids[1] versus the defaulted bids[2], you can see only three companies got any money from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund broadband subsidy. The other five companies got nothing, including SpaceX and LTD.

E-Fiber San Juan LLC gets $7.5M to provide broadband services to 1,085 homes in rural Utah. Monster Broadband gets $5.8M for 11,286 homes in Texas and Tennessee. Northern Arapaho Tribal Industries gets $7.8M for 2,408 homes in Wyoming (probably on Indian reservations). So a total of around $21 million will be spent on 15,000ish homes.

The FCC's budget for the RDOF subsidy is around $20 billion for 4 million homes, so 99.99% of the money is still up for grabs, as are 99.96% of the rural households.

1. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-22-848A2.pdf

2. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-22-848A3.pdf

parent chroma 4 years ago

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