Conexon Withdraws RDOF Waiver Request
Conexon withdrew its petition for waiver to default on certain Rural Digital Opportunity Phase I auction bids it provisionally won in Colorado on tribal lands, said a letter Tuesday in docket 19-126 (see 2106090065). The FCC's "inaction is unnecessarily hurting…
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rural communities ... desperately in need of high-speed broadband services," Conexon said. The company met with Colorado Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, Wireline Bureau staff, and an aide to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel Friday to discuss its pending petition for eligible telecom carrier designation. Previous funding concerns by tribes due to Conexon's award appear "to have been rendered moot" because the tribes were able to obtain support to construct broadband networks.