Rural Telecom Interests Seek FCC RDOF 50/5 Mbps Tier
Add a 50/5 Mbps broadband tier and modify service weightings in the upcoming Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, telecom companies interested in delivering rural broadband told the FCC, posted Monday in docket 19-126. "To increase the chance of the RDOF reducing…
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the digital divide," add a service tier between 25/3 Mbps and 100/20 Mbps, specifically 50/5, they said. "The proposed RDOF line up of just three tiers with an increased weighting for 25/3 Mbps (from 45 to 50) will make it uneconomic for many providers, both wireline and fixed wireless, to successfully bid." They said even fixed wireless providers that can guarantee 100/20 Mbps "cannot do so in all types of terrain or over vast service areas." Participants included AT&T, Sacred Wind, the Wireless ISP Association, Windstream, USTelecom, Midco and Nextlink. They met Wireline Bureau, Office of Economics and Analytics and Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force staff.