Charter Hands Back Thousands of RDOF Locations in Three States

WASHINGTON, April 25, 2024 – Problems with a major federal broadband subsidy program continue to mount, with broadband ISPs blaming unexpected cost hikes and permitting delays as high barriers that have made thousands of rural areas uneconomical to serve.

The most recent case is Charter Communications in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission saying it would surrender locations in three states it won in the agency's multibillion dollar Rural Digital Opportunity Fund reverse auction held in 2020.