Tracking Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Winners

The Federal Communications Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) is still in the process of authorizing bids from its $9.2 billion auction conducted in December 2020. Areas for which winning bids are authorized will have a much harder time going after Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program funding. And after the auction closed there was an array of bids by a variety of broadband providers which looked problematic—either because they were for technologies that don’t represent equitable, pragmatic solutions in the long run, or because they were won by providers ill-prepared to scale to the level they would need to to fulfill obligations. ISLR had developed a new resource to keep tabs on which providers have gotten money, how much has been authorized, and in which states.