This week’s BEAD Challenge weekly office hour was short and sweet – likely because there is just one week left in the challenge portion of the process.
I’ll paste screenshots from the demonstration below and general notes and questions that caught my attention.
Questions:
Update: Portal users can now download their own open rebuttals as CSV
Q: We can upload Word Doc as evidence. If there’s a hypertext link in that Doc would that opened link qualify as evidence?
Yes if that link always worked. Although we might need to check with the team.
Seems like this could be a shortcut to multiple challenges – just listing many links.
Actually let us double check on that.
Q: Do people have challenges planned for next week?
Q: If we have many profiles on our account can we let you know in advance to streamline the process?
Yes – that should be helpful.
Q: Some locations are abandoned sites – what evidence do we need for that to remove them from the FCC fabric?
Need a fabric challenge. It may not be the providers purview to challenge. We’ve figure out a way.
From the Chat:
Sign up for the OBD emails: mn.gov/deed/programs-services/broadband/contact/
The OBD webpage has the latest info + resources on BEAD: mn.gov/deed/programs-services/broadband/bead/
Contact OBD: deed.broadband@state.mn.us or (651) 259-7610
Registration links for upcoming sessions:
- Thursday August 22nd, register here
- Thursday August 29th, register here
- Thursday September 5th, register here
- Thursday September 12th, register here
- Thursday September 19th, register here