Rural Wireless Carriers Seek Higher Speed Threshold for Mobility Fund Support
A group of rural wireless carriers, led by U.S. Cellular, said the FCC should decide that areas without wireless service offering 10 Mbps download speeds should be eligible for Mobility Fund II support. The FCC hasn't provided a reasonable rationale…
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for its selection of a 5 Mbps threshold, the carriers said. “A compelling case can be made that the Commission should declare that a geographic area will be eligible for MF-II support if consumers throughout the area do not have access to mobile broadband service meeting a 10 Mbps minimum speed threshold,” the rural carriers said in a filing in docket 10-90. “Use of a minimum speed in this instance would increase the number of areas eligible for support and more aggressively fill in dead zones because, if any area is not covered by broadband service meeting the minimum speed benchmark, then the entire geographic area would be treated as eligible.” East Kentucky Network, Cellular Network Partnership, NE Colorado Cellular, Nex-Tech Wireless and Smith Bagley also signed the filing.