The FCC announced over $311 million in broadband funding through the Rural Digital opportunity fund. The FCC is ready to authorize the funding in 36 states with the help of 48 broadband providers that’ll bring one gigabit per second broadband speeds to almost 200,000 homes and businesses over the next ten years. This is the first funding approved through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.
At the same time, they also took steps to clean up the program. Due to complaints that the program was poised to fund broadband to parking lots and well-served urban areas, the FCC sent letters to 197 winning bidders. The letters offer gives the opportunity to withdraw their funding requests from those places already with service or where significant questions of waste have been raised.
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