<div dir="ltr">FCC seemed in an awfully big hurry to hold this auction.  WISPA pushed unsuccessfully for fixing our badly broken broadband mapping scheme prior to determining eligible locations for RDOF.<div><br></div><div>Small providers were effectively foreclosed from participating (as usual) by byzantine requirements imposed on potential bidders.  Big corporate players with well-documented failures meeting their CAF & CAF II obligations once again promised to deliver things we know they won't.  CAF-funded fIber-fed cabinets that connect to noone continue to dot the local landscape here.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:14 PM Christopher Mitchell <<a href="mailto:christopher@ilsr.org">christopher@ilsr.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>For folks that want to know a bit more about RDOF and why many are now angry about it...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/rdof-auction-ends-confusion-and-corruption-may-just-be-beginning" target="_blank">https://muninetworks.org/content/rdof-auction-ends-confusion-and-corruption-may-just-be-beginning</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Christopher Mitchell</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Director, Community Broadband Networks</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Institute for Local Self-Reliance</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br><a href="http://www.muninetworks.org/" target="_blank">MuniNetworks.org</a><br><div>@communitynets</div><div>612-545-5185</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 12:25 PM Richard Lowenberg <<a href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.org" target="_blank">rl@1st-mile.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Attached .xlsx        RL<br>
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