Description: Program Description: The Rural Digital Opportunity Fund was a reverse auction that provided support to connect rural homes and small businesses to high-speed broadband networks. RDOF prioritized higher network speeds and lower latency, so that those benefitting from these networks will be able to use tomorrow’s Internet applications as well as today’s.Eligibility Description: Census blocks that meet the following: (1) the census blocks for which price cap carriers currently receive CAF Phase II model-based support; (2) any census blocks that were eligible for, but did not receive, winning bids in the CAF Phase II auction; (3) any census blocks where a CAF Phase II auction winning bidder has defaulted; (4) the census blocks excluded from the offers of model-based support and the CAF Phase II auction because they were served with voice and broadband of at least 10/1 Mbps; (5) census blocks served by both price cap carriers and rate-of-return carriers to the extent that the census block is in the price cap carrier’s territory, using the most recent study area boundary data filed by the rate-of-return carriers to identify their service areas and determine the portion of each census block that is outside this service area; (6) any unserved census blocks that are outside of price cap carriers’ service areas where there is no certified high-cost eligible telecommunications carrier (ETC) providing service, such as the Hawaiian Homelands, and any other populated areas unserved by either a rate-of-return or price cap carrier; and (7) any census blocks identified by rate-of-return carriers in their service areas as ones where they do not expect to extend broadband (as we did with the CAF Phase II auction).This data and the descriptions above are from the FCC Broadband Funding Map: https://fundingmap.fcc.gov/homeOriginal layer name: areapolygons_program24_J23_16nov2023
Service Item Id: 0917554c747448938faa8c582dc6d38c
Copyright Text: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Broadband Funding Map