RWA Encouraged by FCC Mobility Fund II Challenge Process Order Increasing Distances
The Rural Wireless Association is encouraged by an FCC reconsideration order on procedures for a Mobility Fund Phase II challenge process. The Monday order of the Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force and the Wireline and Wireless bureaus increased the maximum…
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distance between speed test measurements to 800 meters and an associated buffer radius to 400 meters. "[W]hile the grid cell size remains the same, lengthening the buffer radius will lessen the amount of hours required to launch a challenge," said RWA General Counsel Carri Bennet of Womble Bond in a release. "As it stood prior to the FCC reconsidering its choice of a ¼ kilometer buffer, RWA members were looking at 50 or more hours a day for the entire 150-day challenge window just to take the necessary measurements.”