FCC Should Consider Giving Tribes Conditional ETC Status for RDOF Bids, MuralNet Says
Require Rural Digital Opportunity Fund auction participants serving tribes to demonstrate an established relationship between the provider and that community, MuralNet CEO Mariel Triggs wrote in a letter posted Monday in docket 19-126. That will "develop meaningful, relevant, and culturally…
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appropriate connectivity solutions," she recounted telling FCC Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau and other staffers. If not, "bidders may face difficulty upholding their obligations." She wants a conditional eligible telecom carrier designation for tribes not yet ETCs so they can more easily participate in RDOF auctions without going through a waiver process, and to be first to get any tribal bidding credits.