Mercury Wireless, Two Other Companies Get Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Authorization

The Federal Communications Commission released over 80 pages of authorized bids in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction. All but part of one page were bids for Mercury Wireless, which had funding released for deployments in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas. Mercury CEO Garrett Wiseman confirmed that some of the authorizations were for gigabit fiber broadband and some were for 100/20 Mbps fixed wireless. Those were the two types of bids that Mercury Wireless made in the auction. Wiseman said these were the first RDOF authorizations the company received. The company also had winning bids in Iowa and Nebraska. The other authorized bids were for FiberLight and MEI Telecom. The latest RDOF authorizations list can be found at this link.