UScellular CEO Meets With Starks on 5G Fund
UScellular CEO Laurent Therivel met with FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks in Chicago recently to urge that markets currently receiving unsubsidized 4G LTE service in rural America be “included as eligible areas” in an upcoming 5G Fund auction, said a filing…
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posted Monday in docket 20-32. “If these areas are ineligible for 5G Fund support, it will represent a significant missed opportunity for the Commission to deliver to rural America 5G service that is timely and of a quality that is reasonably comparable to that which is currently available in urban and suburban areas,” the carrier said.