Changes Expected to Mobility Fund II Map, Pai Says
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai assured Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and other senators that a Mobility Fund II coverage map is “only the beginning of the process.” The senators cited “serious concerns” about the coverage map and whether it overstates the level…
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of 4G LTE coverage in many markets. The Rural Wireless Association has objected to the FCC map (see 1803290043). “The Commission established a lengthy and robust challenge process in consultation with a variety of stakeholders precisely because we anticipated, based on past experience, that parties would raise concerns with the initial eligible areas map,” Pai said in a letter released last week. It will issue a map of “those areas that did not make the initial eligibility map because only one unsubsidized carrier claims to provide the requisite level of service,” Pai said. “These are the areas that are most susceptible of being successfully challenged.”