Frontier Files Response on Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Challenge

On May 1, 2020, Frontier respond to NTCA, NRECA and WISPA, who questioned claims made in Frontier’s challenge to the list of census blocks deemed initially eligible in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase I auction. Frontier confirmed the vast majority of the census blocks listed in its challenge represent existing builds, including those undertaken as part of the Connect America Fund II program over the past five years. Frontier said although these census blocks will not be eligible for RDOF Phase I, they remain high cost and Frontier will not be eligible for ongoing high-cost support in these areas. Frontier said to the extent individual homes in portions of some of these census blocks are unserved at speeds of 25/3 Mbps, Frontier and members of NTCA, NRECA and WISPA will be able to bid on these areas when mapping is complete and RDOF Phase II is implemented.