Mercury Broadband Seeks Waiver of Potential $25.1 Million in RDOF Penalties
A potential $25.1 million in fines for the surrender of multiple Rural Deployment Opportunity Fund census block groups (CBGs) is "neither reasonable nor proportionate to the harm caused by the forfeiture," Mercury Broadband petitioned Monday (docket 19-126) as it seeks…
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a waiver of RDOF forfeiture penalty rules. Returning the RDOF locations for which it received funding in Auction 904 "was absolutely necessary," Mercury said, pointing to some CBGs already having 100/20 Mbps service. Many of the CBGs awarded were estimated to have far more serviceable locations than are estimated today, "disrupt[ing] the underlying economic foundation of Mercury’s deployment strategy."