Headline: Given RDOF locations are ineligible for BEAD funding, defaults won’t help matters in closing the digital divide.
Article: With all the buzz around what will and won’t happen to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, it’s easy to forget the government’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) is chugging along – albeit on a road rife with defaults and rural areas left behind.
As of 2025, internet service providers (ISPs) have defaulted on $3.3 billion of the $9.2 billion total in RDOF awards, according to a study from the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. Meaning 1.9 million of approximately 5.2 million eligible RDOF locations are no longer scheduled to receive service.
Date: February 20, 2025
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