GeoLinks scopes out opportunities to scale with Rural Digital Opportunity Fund support

GeoLinks took home $84.6 million of the $234.9 million it won in the Federal Communications Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction for broadband projects in Arizona and Nevada. While its top priority is ramping up those fiber and fixed wireless builds, company President Ryan Adams said it's also keeping its eyes peeled for expansion opportunities from the Southwest to the East Coast which could help it scale over the next decade. GeoLinks has slowly but surely slid swaths of southern California under its wing through strategic partnerships, like with the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC), which helped connect schools and public libraries across rural California to reliable internet connections. Even though fiber is the golden goose for GeoLinks, fixed wireless via licensed and unlicensed spectrum alike are of interest. While Adams wasn’t ready just yet to reveal the next key markets that RDOF projects will launch in, he underscored that the company was working closely with the FCC to build roadmaps on what is to come to ensure that all milestones can be met in the future.