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CHARLESTON Thanks to a new map developed by the West Virginia Broadband Enhancement Council, the public can see the parts of the state set to receive access to high-speed internet over the next 10 years.
The new Broadband Availability Map available at broadband.wv.gov shows where the state will receive access to broadband after the first phase of the Federal Communication Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund auction.
Nine companies were selected in the RDOF Phase I auction to expand high-speed internet to unserved parts of West Virginia.
These companies will receive $362.1 million through the auction out of a possible $766 million for projects in 119,267 Census tracts.
SpaceX’s Super Heavy Booster Absent From Three Year FCC Test Grant Extension Dec 16, 2020 15:40 EST
Astronautic launch equipment manufacturer Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has been granted a three-year extension in its license for conducting tests in the company s facilities in Boca Chica, Texas. The extension comes from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that has approved SpaceX s grant filed last week in the wake of its successful test flight of the Starship SN8 upper stage spacecraft test article.
Super Heavy s Absence From Grant & Request Does Not Mean No Test Flights For The Booster
The approval was granted yesterday with a notification emailed to SpaceX s representative today. It is needed due to SpaceX s need to communicate with its test articles while they re in flight. This communication is two-way, with the downlink enabling the company to monitor the prototype s performance while it is in flight, and the uplink enabling it to change pa
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The change is related to the Federal Communications Commissionâs auction for the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.
Successful bidders in Pennsylvania will receive $368.7 million over the next 10 years to bring high-speed internet service to homes and businesses that are underserved or do not have access to broadband that meets current federal standards.
The FCC indicates more than 99% of the successful bids are for 100 Megabit-per-second download speeds, four times faster than the âNetflix speedâ benchmark of 25 Megabits per second currently used by the FCC to define access to broadband service
The state Public Utility Commission noted successful funding for these projects is the result of work by many stakeholders who supported it, including the office of Gov. Tom Wolf, legislators and Penn State Universityâs Rural Extension Program, who developed a detailed and publicly available map that showed all the eligible areas and the support that could be provided to i