UPDATE The top 10 winners in the recently completed Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase 1 auction will take home just over three quarters (76 percent) of the total $9.2 billion in funding awarded through the auction, according to Telecompetitor. Below is an FCC map of the top 20 bidders and the amounts they were awarded.
The RDOF auction was structured differently than other Commission spectrum auctions. The event used a multi-round, descending clock auction format. Bidders under that format indicated in each round whether they would commit to provide service to an area at a given performance tier and latency at the current round’s support amount.
The auction was technologically neutral and open to new providers. Bidding procedures prioritized bids for higher speeds and lower latency, according to the agency.
Bids were considered simultaneously, so that bidders proposing to meet one set of performance standards competed directly against bidders that proposed to meet other performance standards. Bids were placed as a percentage of the reserve price for the area subject to the bid in a descending clock auction. Lower bids were selected first, with a preference for higher speeds and lower latency. The support amount that a winning bidder receives accounts for any weights associated with the performance tier and latency.
The Phase I auction targeted over six million homes and businesses in census blocks that are unserved by voice and broadband with download speeds of at least 25 Mbps. This fact sheet gives details concerning the auction budget, support terms, deployment and more.
FCC winners map
Top 15 (see full list)
- California $695,158,129
- Mississippi $495,725,800
- Arkansas $424,243,218
- Minnesota $408,150,746
- Illinois $378,310,111
- Wisconsin $373,715,051
- Michigan $362,985,056
- Texas $362,662,934
- Missouri $346,297,660
- Louisiana $342,207,315
- Alabama $330,804,828
- Georgia $326,454,112
- Colorado $249,833,710
- Virginia $238,644,934
- Washington $222,768,533
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