Target Tribal Mobility Fund to Areas of Greatest Need, Smith Bagley Urges FCC
The upcoming Tribal Mobility Fund Phase II auction should be weighted to provide money for the most remote and difficult to serve tribal lands, Smith Bagley Inc. told the FCC. SBI reported on meetings between Chairman Kevin Frawley and FCC…
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staff. The carrier “presented demographic data from the U.S. Census and the Commission’s Connect2Health initiative demonstrating that the Tribal lands where SBI serves, as well as a number of others in the Lower 48, remain at a severe disadvantage compared to many other Tribal lands, and the rest of the nation.” It "would be a significant setback for the Commission’s ongoing efforts to promote telephone and broadband penetration on Tribal lands if the Tribal Mobility Fund II auction disbursed all of its funds to areas with better demographics and lower costs to serve, to the exclusion of the nation’s most challenging Tribal lands,” the carrier said, posted Friday in docket 10-90.