WTA Expresses Opposition to Supplementing RDOF Support Amounts

WTA—Advocates for Rural Broadband filed a letter in opposition to a proposal by the Coalition of RDOF Winners which seeks substantial post-auction supplemental additions to the support amounts, as well as significant changes to the distribution schedules and other terms and conditions, for which the Coalition’s members made winning low bids and agreed to accept during the Federal Communications Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) reverse auction. WTA urges the FCC to deny the Coalition’s proposals, reiterate the certified due diligence responsibilities of all RDOF applicants, and declare that the integrity of the RDOF auction and any future USF reverse auctions requires that support amounts, public interest obligations and other terms and conditions will not be waived or changed from those that constituted material elements of winning bids.