In Auction Default, Indiana ISP Hands Back Broadband Locations to FCC
RTC is handing back nearly half of the locations won in the RDOF auction.
RTC is handing back nearly half of the locations won in the RDOF auction.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2024 – A rural Indiana internet service provider is giving back hundreds of locations won in a federal broadband subsidy auction in 2020.
Daviess-Martin Rural Telephone Corp. in Montgomery, Indiana, said it was relinquishing 12 Census Block Groups with 635 locations that it had been assigned by the Federal Communications Commission after completion of a reverse auction in 2020.
"Unforeseen circumstances beyond RTC's control have made it unfeasible to deploy broadband to certain CBG locations much further away from the companies existing network," the company said in an Aug. 30 letter to an FCC bureau chief.
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