Top executives from LTD Broadband zoomed to Washington last week with a simple message: We can do it. LTD looks forward to connecting rural Americans to its RDOF‐supported Gigabit fiber broadband network, the company wrote of its recent meeting with FCC officials. LTD can meet the high standards expected of RDOF winners, to the benefit of those in rural America that desire Gigabit service.
The meeting, conducted virtually on Friday, was an important one. It featured LTD CEO Corey Hauer and Haley Tollefson, LTD s director of government relations, meeting with Ramesh Nagarajan, legal advisor to Acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. And it centered on the FCC s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.
LTD Broadband Taps Aviat Networks for Key Role in Rural Broadband Network Expansion
High-speed wireless backhaul systems support middle mile broadband network connectivity and fiber redundancy in RDOF rollout
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AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Aviat Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNW), the leading expert in wireless transport solutions, today announced that LTD Broadband, an internet service provider (ISP) and top recipient in the US government s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction with a total of $1.3 billion in funding, will deploy Aviat s WTM 4000 microwave and multi-band platform systems in its network middle mile and for fiber redundancy. The company has already deployed these Aviat systems in its current network, which delivers high-speed connectivity to commercial and residential subscribers in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, with other states in planning as part of the co
LTD Broadband was the biggest winner in the FCC s recent Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, and will use products from Aviat Networks to meet its RDOF obligations.
(Feb 5): The U.S. Federal Communications Commission faces pressure from rural internet service providers to deny a planned US$886 million subsidy to Elon Musk’s SpaceX for beaming broadband to underserved areas from outer space.
Even before winning a competition for the funds, SpaceX had set up its service and begun launching satellites. More than 1,000 of the Starlink craft are now aloft, providing service to test subscribers. The company says its system “is uniquely positioned to deliver high-quality broadband service to the hardest-to-reach rural Americans.”
But that hasn’t stopped complaints about it winning a competition for subsidies from the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, in part because the service was being built without the aid and isn’t limited to rural areas. The planned awards to Space Exploration Technologies Corp., as it’s formally known, and to other companies have lawmakers raising questions about the entire US$9.2 billion program.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission faces pressure from rural internet service providers to deny a planned $886 million subsidy to Elon Musk’s SpaceX…