What Happens to the Estimated $2.8 Billion in RDOF Defaults?
The remaining RDOF budget of approximately $14 billion may never be awarded.
Nearly every winning bid in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund rural broadband funding program has now either been authorized or deemed to be in default. Of the $9.2 billion over 10 years tentatively won in the auction, over $2.8 billion has gone into default, according to an estimate from Cooperative Network Services, a rural broadband consultancy that has been keeping tabs on the program, shared exclusively with Telecompetitor.
