Will Starlink Meet Federal Broadband Capacity Requirements?

Will Starlink Meet Federal Broadband Capacity Requirements?

February 9, 2021

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Via Business Wire - 8 February 2021 - The Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) and NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association today submitted to the FCC a technical assessment and model to aid the agency's efforts to scrutinize the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) long-form applications for Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) Satellite broadband networks.

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The FCC awarded almost $900M of assigned RDOF funds to SpaceX with a commitment to connect 640,000 locations across the U.S. with its Starlink satellite broadband technology. The sample analysis conducted by Cartesian, based upon current publicly available information, estimates that Starlink would face a capacity shortfall by 2028 and over 56% of Starlink's RDOF subscribers would not be fully served. Through this analysis, the Cartesian paper provides a roadmap for the FCC to evaluate more information as it becomes available and to verify ultimately whether the network will in fact perform as promised in the RDOF auction.

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> Fiber Broadband Association

> NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association

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LINK:	https://www.cartesian.com/press-release-new-research-highlights-concer...
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