Rural Broadband Bidders Provisionally Selected
Rural broadband experiment bidders provisionally selected to serve 26,867 census blocks in 25 states and Puerto Rico were announced by the FCC Wireline Bureau in a public notice Friday. The bureau must now determine whether each selected applicant has demonstrated…
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it has the technical and financial qualifications to successfully complete the proposed project within the required time frames and is in compliance with all statutory and regulatory requirements, the notice said. The notice said 19 entities are seeking support to build networks capable of delivering 100 Mbps downstream and 25 Mbps upstream in census blocks in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico and Texas. Another 12 entities are seeking support to build networks capable of delivering 10 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream in census blocks in Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington. Nine entities are seeking support to build networks capable of delivering 10 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream in selected census blocks that are extremely costly to serve in California, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, North Dakota, Kansas, South Dakota and Texas.