RDOF Eligible Areas

5,392,530 RDOF Locations

RDOF eligible areas

Per the Public Notice released on June 25th, approximately 5,392,530 locations are eligible in the RDOF auction, across 61,963 Census Block Groups around the U.S. Providers have the opportunity to bid on these eligible Census Blocks, and receive funding to provide voice and broadband access. The total annual reserve price for these areas is $2.7B, but it’s important to remember that this is the annual maximum. Given that areas will be awarded in a reverse auction format, the actual amount of support received for a given area will likely be lower than the reserve price.

RDOF buildout requirements

In this reverse auction, providers will submit bids based off the financial requirements estimated to provide service to eligible areas. If awarded an eligible area, a provider will receive monthly payments from the FCC and services must be made available to all locations within the awarded area per the following timeline:

note, per the FCC website:

“If there are fewer locations than originally estimated by the cost model, support recipients must serve the revised number of locations by end of year six. If there are more locations than originally estimated by the cost model, support recipients must serve the cost model-estimated number of locations by the end of year six and must serve the remainder of locations by the end of year eight.“

RDOF eligible areas map

Note that while the number of locations and the reserve price are provided, the actual lat/lon coordinates and addresses of RDOF eligible locations are not provided by the FCC. In order to meet the FCC reporting requirements, all awarded providers will eventually need lat//lon coordinates, and addresses to report the progress and completion of the locations served in an awarded area.

CQA is not responsible for the accuracy or maintenance of this map