Mobility Fund II Challenge Window Opens Thursday
The FCC will publish in the Federal Register Thursday its specific parameters and procedures for implementing the Mobility Fund Phase II challenge process. The document lays out the steps the FCC will use “to establish a map of areas presumptively…
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eligible for MF-II support from the newly collected, standardized 4G Long Term Evolution coverage data and proposes specific parameters for the data that challengers and respondents will submit as part of the challenge process, as well as a process for validating challenges,” the notice said. The challenge window opens Thursday and will remain open through Aug. 27. AT&T said Wednesday the FCC laid out challenge rules that are “clear-cut and manageable” and it’s time to get the process started. “Predictably, many of the same carriers who have long criticized the FCC data collection methods have criticized the MF-II maps as well,” said Mary Henze, AT&T assistant vice president-federal regulatory. “The FCC has collected new data to generate an up-to-date LTE coverage map designed specifically to meet its USF goals and created a hands-on way to crowdsource more granular data through a comprehensive challenge process to make the map even better.”