FCC Announces Deadline for Bidders Interested in Remaining Under Consideration for Rural Broadband Experiments Support to File Additional Information

The Federal Communications Commission established a process to enable the provisional selection of additional bidders for rural broadband experiments support in the event any of the current provisionally selected bidders defaults before the time the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau finalizes the list of census blocks that will be offered to the price cap carriers for Phase II of the Connect America Fund.

Specifically, all bidders in the rural broadband experiments that wish to remain in consideration for rural broadband experiments support must file their most recent three consecutive years of audited financial statements, including balance sheets, net income, and cash flow, as well as a description of the technology and system design that would be used to deliver voice and broadband service meeting the requisite speeds to all locations in the funded census blocks, including a network diagram, which must be certified by a professional engineer.

This information must be filed with the FCC in WC Docket No. 14-259 by 7p.m. EST on Tuesday, January 6, 2015.