Lumen Facing Penalties in Wake of RDOF Defaults

WASHINGTON, September 13, 2024 - A federal agency is holding Lumen Technologies responsible after the company withdrew from thousands of Rural Digital Opportunity Fund locations across three states.

The company, which originally won over 77,000 homes and businesses in the RDOF reverse auction in 2020, is now defaulting on 3,500 of those locations.

The Federal Communications Commission said in a public notice Monday that it expects to recover all of its previously established financial support for the defaulted locations that Lumen will no longer serve when the deployment term concludes.