FCC proposes fines against 73 applicants of Rural Digital Opportunity Fund
The FCC proposes $4,353,773.87 in total fines against 73 applicants in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I Auction (Auction 904) that defaulted on their bids for support between July 26, 2021, and March 10, 2022. [...] The objective of Auction 904 was to facilitate the provision of broadband service to Americans in wholly unserved areas. https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-over-4-million-fines-against-aucti... Applicant Name AMG Technology Investment Group, LLC Aspire Networks 2, LLC Bright House Networks Information Services (Florida), LLC BroadLife Communications, Inc. Central Scott Telephone Company, Inc. Charter Fiberlink - Alabama, LLC Charter Fiberlink - Georgia, LLC Charter Fiberlink - Michigan, LLC Charter Fiberlink - Missouri, LLC Charter Fiberlink - Tennessee, LLC Charter Fiberlink CCO, LLC Charter Fiberlink VA-CCO, LLC City of Farmington Cogeco US (Delmar), LLC Commnet Wireless, LLC Computer Techniques, Inc. dba CTI Fiber Conexon Connect LLC Consolidated Fiber, Inc. Cooperative Connect, Inc. Delta Communications, L.L.C. Direct Communications Rockland, Inc Edisto Electric Cooperative, Inc. Effective Systems Fiber Network, LLC Foursight Communications LLC, dba Trilight Great Plains Communications LLC Gtek Computers & Wireless L.L.C. Guernsey-Muskingum Electric Cooperative, Inc. HolstonConnect LLC HomeTown Broadband, Inc. Horry Telephone Cooperative, Inc. Hotwire Communications, Ltd iZone Broadband LLC. KanOkla Telephone Association Licking Rural Electrification LTD Broadband LLC Lynches River Communications Inc MCC Network Services, LLC Mountain West Technologies Corporation NEXT, Powered by NAEC, LLC NexTier Consortium NMSURF, Inc. NW Fiber, LLC OEConnect, LLC One Ring Networks, Inc Palmetto Link, LLC PIERCE PEPIN COOPERATIVE SERVICES QCOL, Inc. Redzone Wireless, LLC RiverStreet Communications of North Carolina, Inc. RiverStreet Communications of Virginia, Inc. Rural Electric Cooperative Consortium Shelby Fiber, LLC Snake River Solutions, LLC South Central Power, Inc. STEUBEN COUNTY RURAL ELECTRIC MEMERSHIP SW Arkansas Telecommunications & Technology, Inc. Talkie Communications, Inc. Tennessee Valley Electric Cooperative The Seimitsu Corporation Time Warner Cable Information Services (California), LLC Time Warner Cable Information Services (Indiana), LLC Time Warner Cable Information Services (Kentucky), LLC Time Warner Cable Information Services (Massachusetts), LLC Time Warner Cable Information Services (New Hampshire), LLC Time Warner Cable Information Services (North Carolina), LLC Time Warner Cable Information Services (Ohio), LLC Time Warner Cable Information Services (Pennsylvania), LLC Time Warner Cable Information Services (South Carolina), LLC Time Warner Cable Information Services (Texas), LLC United Services, Inc. WC Fiber, LLC Wilkes Telephone Membership Corporation Wood County Telephone Company d/b/a Solarus YAZOO VALLEY ELECTRIC POWER ASSOCIATION yondoo Broadband LLC
On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 1:12 PM Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
The FCC proposes $4,353,773.87 in total fines against 73 applicants in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I Auction (Auction 904) that defaulted on their bids for support between July 26, 2021, and March 10, 2022.
The overwhelming majority of the penalties were in the 4 and low 5 figures -- pocket change for a network business. The exceptions were: LTD Broadband LLC Kansas and Oklahoma $2.3M Time Warner Cable Information Services (Indiana), $276k Time Warner Cable Information Services (South Carolina) $276k Charter Fiberlink – Tennessee $231k RiverStreet Communications of Virginia, Inc North Carolina $117k Regards, Bill Herrin -- For hire. https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
Once upon a time, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> said:
The overwhelming majority of the penalties were in the 4 and low 5 figures -- pocket change for a network business. The exceptions were:
Some of these companies are very small rural outfits, where a 5 figure fine isn't exactly pocket change. I wonder how the supply chain issues are affecting this. I know a rural electric company that had a (just before pre-RDOF) grant for setting up Internet that couldn't get the routers they'd ordered and paid for; they were back-ordered for months. They had to scramble and get loaners out of a reseller's demo pool to meet their grant timeline requirements. -- Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
On Fri, 22 Jul 2022, William Herrin wrote:
The FCC proposes $4,353,773.87 in total fines against 73 applicants in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I Auction (Auction 904) that defaulted on their bids for support between July 26, 2021, and March 10, 2022. The overwhelming majority of the penalties were in the 4 and low 5
On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 1:12 PM Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote: figures -- pocket change for a network business. The exceptions were:
LTD Broadband LLC Kansas and Oklahoma $2.3M Time Warner Cable Information Services (Indiana), $276k Time Warner Cable Information Services (South Carolina) $276k Charter Fiberlink – Tennessee $231k RiverStreet Communications of Virginia, Inc North Carolina $117k
What % of fines does FCC successfully collect, vs what they issue? -Dan
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Chris Adams
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goemon@sasami.anime.net
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Sean Donelan
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William Herrin