{"id":114361,"date":"2020-10-13T18:24:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T01:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/spacex-hughes-and-viasat-qualify-to-bid-for-20-4-billion-in-fcc-rural-broadband-subsidies"},"modified":"2020-10-15T02:07:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T09:07:39","slug":"spacex-hughes-and-viasat-qualify-to-bid-for-20-4-billion-in-fcc-rural-broadband-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/spacex-hughes-and-viasat-qualify-to-bid-for-20-4-billion-in-fcc-rural-broadband-subsidies","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX, Hughes and Viasat qualify to bid for $20.4 billion in FCC rural broadband subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-hughes-and-viasat-qualify-to-bid-for-20-4-billion-in-fcc-rural-broadband-subsidies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 SpaceX, Hughes Network Systems and Viasat are eligible to compete for a share of the $20.4 billion in broadband subsidies the FCC plans to dole out under the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) starting later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Communications Commission on Oct. 13 released a list of \u201cqualified bidders\u201d for the RDOF funds, which will be awarded via reverse auction to telecom providers bidding to bring subsidized voice and broadband internet services to rural communities and other underserved parts of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>FCC\u2019s list of qualified bidders includes 386 telecom providers, including SpaceX, Hughes and Viasat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 SpaceX, Hughes Network Systems and Viasat are eligible to compete for a share of the $20.4 billion in broadband subsidies the FCC plans to dole out under the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) starting later this month. The Federal Communications Commission on Oct. 13 released a list of \u201cqualified bidders\u201d for the RDOF [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114439,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114361\/revisions\/114439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}