RDOF AWARDS ANNOUNCED!

Today, 7 DEC 2020, the FCC announces “Successful Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Auction To Expand Broadband To Over 10 Million Rural Americans”.

This amounts to $9.2 Billion total.

The West Virginia slice? $362,066,660.20 spread across 9 winning bidders, serving 119,267 assigned locations!

Visit https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-auction-bring-broadband-over-10-million-rural-americans for all the details and to download the announcement documents.

Broken down by bidder:

Bidder                    Assigned Support Over 10 Years        # Locations Assigned

Altice USA, Inc.     $ 125,528.00                                             536

Citynet                      $ 53,516,858.30                                     13,460

Commnet Wireless     $ 196,952.00                                         206

Digital Connections Inc. dba PRODIGI          $ 8,583,001.40      4,771

Frontier                     $ 247,626,395.30                                     79,391

GigaBeam Networks, LLC  $ 28,067,789.20                             9,071

Micrologic Inc.     $ 10,036,047.70                                         2,076

Shenandoah Cable Television,     $ 91,867.00                             419

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.      $ 13,822,221.30        9,337

The gray shading indicates the awarded areas.