Charter Looking to Surrender More Than 1,400 Additional RDOF Locations

WASHINGTON, June 10, 2024 – Charter Communications is looking to hand back more than 1,400 more locations it had committed to serve as part of a federal rural broadband subsidy program.

The company surrendered in April another 23,000 homes and businesses it had been assigned through the Federal Communications Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, citing the high cost of replacing utility poles and repeated disagreements with the companies that own them. Charter tacked on another 59 census block groups – without specifying how many locations they included – in late May.