RWA Sees Problems With Mobility Fund II Rules
The Rural Wireless Association said the FCC’s “unambitious” Mobility Fund II threshold for areas deemed to have 4G LTE coverage -- download speeds of at least 5 Mbps with no corresponding upload speed requirement -- is “insufficient to ensure that…
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rural Americans receive mobile broadband services that are ‘reasonably comparable’ to those available in urban areas.” RWA slammed the rules for challenging whether an area qualifies for support. “Stakeholders cannot rely upon the Commission’s challenge process to adequately address the map’s shortcomings,” RWA said in a statement. “Of significant concern is the fact that the Commission’s process will rely on a system of square kilometer, rather than square mile, grid squares. In the majority of rural America, roads are situated directly on the borders of a one mile by one mile grid. The Commission’s decision to ignore this reality has yielded a challenge scheme in which thousands of kilometer grid squares lack the necessary road coverage and will therefore be unmeasurable using drive tests.”