RWA Officials Meet With Rosenworcel Aide on Proposed 5G Fund
Rural Wireless Association representatives spoke with an aide to FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel on questions about the proposed 5G Fund. These include speed standards and timing of the challenge process for maps. The FCC released limited details on the proposed…
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$9 billion fund (see 2403260052). “RWA noted its members’ concerns with how certain rule changes could potentially leave legacy high-cost mobile carriers’ 5G investments in their networks stranded if they were unsuccessful in an upcoming auction,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 20-32. “Given the immense burden that losing legacy high-cost mobile support would put on these mobile carriers, RWA requested that the Commission include language in the to-be-adopted … Order that would allow for an extension of the two-year transition or, alternatively, a waiver of the phase out of legacy support conditioned on continued support being cost-based or determined by the auction reserve price established for the eligible area upon a showing of good cause.”