LTD Broadband is an internet service provider (ISP) based in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, offering fixed-wireless and fiber broadband services to both rural and urban communities. Although they secured over $1.3 billion in planned support from the FCC's 2020 Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, the FCC rescinded the award in August 2022 due to eligibility concerns and doubts about their ability to deliver high-speed internet. The company has faced fines and challenges related to meeting buildout commitments and maintaining eligible telecommunications carrier status. LTD Broadband also operates under a service agreement with a separate entity, GigFire.
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Terrestrial telco LTD Broadband was denied $1,300,000,000 in provisionally awarded RDOF subsidies.
Terrestrial telco LTD Broadband was denied $1,300,000,000 in provisionally awarded RDOF subsidies at the same time as SpaceX.
Terrestrial telco LTD Broadband was provisionally awarded $1,300,000,000 in RDOF subsidies and also failed to demonstrate it could deliver the promised service.
LTD Broadband won $1,300,000,000 from RDOF to supply broadband to 528,000 locations across 15 states.
LTD Broadband, Charter Communications, and the Rural Electric Cooperative Consortium each won between $1,100,000,000 and $1,300,000,000 in RDOF Phase 1 funding to serve nearly 2.2 million locations combined.