FCC Authorizes Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Support for 466 Winning Bids

The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau, in conjunction with the Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force and the Office of Economics and Analytics, authorized Rural Digital Opportunity Fund support for 466 identified winning bids. The FCC will also soon post a state-level summary on the Auction 904 webpage. The summary will provide for each long-form applicant: the total support amount over 10 years and total number of locations that the long-form applicant is being authorized for in each state; the total number of locations to which the authorized support recipient must offer the required voice and broadband services for each performance tier and latency in each state; and the eligible census blocks included in the winning bids that are being authorized in each state. The Universal Service Administrative Company will make disbursement payments to the authorized bids in 120 monthly payments, which will begin at the end of September 2021.