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Charter Responds to Critics of its Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Winning Bid
In a filing at the Federal Communications Commission, Charter defended itself against a group of bidders in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction that have questioned Charter’s winning bid in the auction. Charter had the top bid in the auction and is poised to gain $1.22 billion to cover some of the costs of deploying broadband to unserved rural areas. Charter made its filing in reply comments in connection with the company’s request to obtain eligible telecommunications carrier (ETC) status for Alabama, New Hampshire, and Tennessee.
Comcast DOCSIS 4.0 Test Puts Fiber Broadband Competitors on Notice (telecompetitor)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 04/25/2021 - 16:40Fiber Lit Building Pace Slows During Pandemic, Expected to Pick up in 2021 (telecompetitor)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 04/25/2021 - 16:40Frontier Gains Final Approval, Bankruptcy Exit Imminent (telecompetitor)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 14:05Windstream Pennsylvania Gigabit Public/Private Partnership Project Funded, in Part, Through CARES Act (telecompetitor)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 04/14/2021 - 14:04SpaceX a Threat to Rural Broadband Providers? Maybe in a Few Years, Maybe Never
A research note from telecom financial analysts at MoffettNathanson Research shows the firm estimates SpaceX’s total addressable US market at full deployment at between 300,000 to 800,000 households, or less than 1% of the market. It’s a particularly noteworthy number, considering that SpaceX is poised to receive nearly $900 million from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) to cover some of the costs of bringing broadband to unserved rural areas.
Public/Private Broadband Partnerships: Trust is Critical, Says Jim Baller
Trust between partners is critical to successful public/private broadband partnerships, said James Baller, a partner with Keller & Heckman, a law firm with a specialty in telecom. A good public/private partnership agreement addresses dozens of variables, said Baller.
Broadband Associations Ask FCC for Defaulted RDOF Census Block Transparency
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association, NRTC, the Wisconsin State Telecommunications Association and the Ensuring RDOF Integrity Coalition (ERIC) have asked the Federal Communications Commission to release a list of census block groups that provisionally won funding through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) program but on which the winning bidder has defaulted.
Rural Fiber Penetration at 23%, Almost 1/3 of Rural Customers Seek Faster Broadband
Rural fiber penetration now stands at 23%, according to a study conducted by Pivot Group (parent company of Telecompetitor) and sponsored by Innovative Systems. The 6th Annual Rural Video and Broadband Industry Study from Pivot Group also found that cable broadband penetration leads all access technologies in rural America at 39%. DSL ranked at 14%, followed by fixed wireless at 10% and satellite broadband at 6%.