On Tuesday, the FCC released the winners of the Connect American Fund (CAF) II Auction. ECN Magazine reports…
The FCC on Tuesday revealed names of the winning bidders of its Connect America Fund Phase II (CAF-II) auction, which concluded last week and will dole out $1.488 billion to internet service providers to expand fixed internet coverage in rural areas.
The winners span a variety of different service provider types, with satellite providers, electric cooperatives and WISPs filling out those receiving the most support in auction funds.
Here are the winners listed for Minnesota:
I’ve copied items from their table which included:
Bidder – FRN –Assigned Support over 10 Years – Number of Locations
- Broadband Corp – 0016419392 – $428,117.00 – 128
- Consolidated Telephone Company – 0003742467 – $934,933.80 – 358
- Farmers Mutual Telephone Company – 0003747722 – $ 348,991.60 – 163
- Federated Telephone Cooperative – 0003741576 – $1,431,038.80 – 808
- Fond du Lac Reservation Business Committee – 0027389550 – $55,010.80 – 13
- Garden Valley Telephone Company – 0002652519 – $880,346.00 – 95
- Halstad Telephone Company – 0003744224 – $19,635.20 – 7
- Interstate Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. – 0003741550 – $552,329.60 – 209
- Jaguar Communication, Inc – 0004365961 – $510,587.60 – 672
- Johnson Telephone Company – 0004311304 – $81,272.50 – 47
- LTD Broadband LLC – 0020926788 – $1,104,440.80 – 840
- Midcontinent Communications – 0002621951 – $27,977,283.80 – 7,410
- Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative – 0002644953 – $1,313,542.60 – 315
- Roseau Electric Cooperative, Inc. – 0009568379 – $2,081,769.70 – 326
- West Central Telephone Association – 0002645612 – $611,934.40 – 532
- Wikstrom Telephone Company – 0004319372 – $532,556.80 – 56
Assuming I didn’t miss one – and please let me know if you notice I did, it looks like $38,331,234.20 for 11,979 locations.