The ink is just beginning to dry on the FCC's initial $9.2 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, but some in the telecom industry are already raising questions about the entities receiving funds, what they plan to spend it on, and whether they might be able to effectively cross the digital divide. "Confusion and corruption may just be beginning," wrote Christopher Mitchell, director of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), on the group's MuniNetworks website. Mitchell raised a number of questions about how some of the auction's biggest winners might effectively deploy a range of telecom technologies in rural areas.