[1st-mile-nm] FCC Muddles the RDOF Grants

[John Badal]

Richard,

Doug makes some good points, but is wrong in his assessment that fixed wireless carriers cannot provide 100 Mbps download.  We've been doing precisely that in Cibola and McKinley Counties now for 3 years.  As long as the middle mile is adequate - requiring either a fiber connection to a tower or Gigabit backhaul from a fiber-fed tower to other towers in the daisy chain - 100 Mbps is no longer a stretch.  The FCC in its RDOF order recognized that 17 percent of all fixed wireless companies in the country are now providing 100Mbps to the home.  We're proud to say that we are one of them.

John

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Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FCC Muddles the RDOF Grants

Doug Dawson's nearly daily blog is excellent.
Here is a link to today's, which is most critically important.

https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpotsandpansbyccg.com%2F2020%2F06%2F24%2Fthe-fcc-muddles-the-rdof-grants%2F&data=01%7C01%7Cjbadal%40sacredwindnm.com%7C6f100471edb441652eb408d818694855%7C1458a946b06346cbbe2752dbe35fba15%7C0&sdata=nrYfSDtalXKpWyF%2FFk8Cso8myJCWBqHIJwo0OTGqKqE%3D&reserved=0

R.




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