FCC moves forward with Rural Digital Opportunity Fund auction

摘要

The Federal Communications Commission adopted procedures for Phase I of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund auction (Auction 904), which will award up to $16 billion in support over 10 years for the deployment of fixed broadband networks to millions of unserved homes and businesses across rural America. The $20.4 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund is the FCC's most ambitious step ever toward bridging the digital divide. It prioritizes bids for higher speed-up to 1 Gbps - and lower latency networks, and more than doubles the minimum speed from the FCC's 2018 Connect America Phase II auction to 25/3 Mbps.