<div dir="auto">“<b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif">Elon Musk</b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif">’s Starlink was not the only major company to </span><a href="https://broadbandbreakfast.com/2021/04/rdof-reverse-auction-criticized-google-makes-pandemic-gains-california-broadband-access-for-k-12/" style="font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;opacity:1;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif">inflate its capabilities</span></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif"> in RDOF bids. Nearly 100 bidders have defaulted since the auction, leaving in limbo an </span><a href="https://broadbandbreakfast.com/2023/06/what-happens-to-the-estimated-2-8-billion-in-rdof-defaults/" style="font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;opacity:1;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif">estimated $2.8 billion</span></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif"> of the $9.2 billion originally awarded. </span></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto"><font style="font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif;border-color:currentcolor;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif"><br></span></font><div dir="auto"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;display:block;font-weight:400;line-height:1.55;font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:400;font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif">The FCC<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif"> </span></span><a href="https://broadbandbreakfast.com/2023/12/fcc-proposes-22-million-fine-against-ltd-over-rdof/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;opacity:1;text-decoration:none;font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:400;font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif">upheld another denial</span></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:400;font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif"> </span>on Monday in the case of LTD Broadband, which appealed the commission’s finding that it could not reasonably serve the more than 500,000 locations to which it had committed. The commission also hit LTD with a $21.7 million fine for its default.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;display:block;font-weight:400;line-height:1.55;font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)" dir="auto"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:400;font-family:"PT Serif",sans-serif">The commission’s two Republicans dissented to Starlink’s denial, claiming they saw a path for the company to improve its speeds before the first deployment deadline in 2025.”</span></p></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div><a href="https://broadbandbreakfast.com/2023/12/fcc-upholds-denial-of-starlinks-rdof-application/">https://broadbandbreakfast.com/2023/12/fcc-upholds-denial-of-starlinks-rdof-application/</a></div><br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">All the best,<br><br>Frank<br>Frantisek (Frank) Borsik<br><br><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik">https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik</a><br>Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp: +421919416714 <br>iMessage, mobile: +420775230885<br>Skype: casioa5302ca<br><a href="mailto:frantisek.borsik@gmail.com">frantisek.borsik@gmail.com</a><br></div></div></div>