It sort of feels like almost daily that we receive a statement announcing Verizon or AT&T is planning to expand its LTE coverage to a few, five, eleven new markets. But in some remote pockets of the rustic, you would be lucky to latch onto even a pretty good 3G signal. In a bid to ensure those folks within the boonies get their due, the Federal Communications Commission is establishing a fund to encourage carriers to roll out 3G and 4G service in sparser areas. All told, the agency plans to award as much as $300 million to mobile operators, with funds going to the providers offering the bottom rates. The winners should be decided in a sealed, single-round auction, which opens June 27th and is about to near July 11th. As a condition for receiving the funds, carriers must conform to cover in any case 75 percent of the line miles within a given census tract. While it's unclear at this early stage which mobile players will take the bait, the FCC's already signaled which parts of the rustic would be first in line for upgraded service -- namely, Rocky Mountain states like Utah and Idaho, together with Maine, Appalachia and upstate Ny.
From WhatNewsToday.net
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