RiverStreet Receives RDOF Waiver from Wireline Bureau
The FCC Wireline Bureau approved a limited waiver for Virginia’s RiverStreet Communications of the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund milestone and noncompliance rules, relieving it of RDOF obligations to serve all eligible census blocks within the census block groups (CBGs)…
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covered by RiverStreet’s winning bids, said an order in Friday’s Daily Digest. The order relieves RiverStreet of the obligation to serve all census blocks in New Kent County, Virginia. The relief will “prevent duplication” with buildout commitments made by Cox Communications to serve all the locations within those CBGs, the order said. The waiver “will further our interagency coordination efforts by avoiding duplication of public funding and maximizing the use of public funds to support high-speed broadband service to as many unserved consumers as possible,” it added.