Charter Defends Petition to Exclude Parts of NY From RDOF Phase I; Some Towns Agree

Charter Communications defended its petition to exclude from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund phase I auction any New York census blocks where it's obligated by a 2016 Time Warner acquisition agreement to expand broadband. In replies posted through Wednesday in docket 19-126 (see 2004220022), some towns agreed with the company. Charter said commenters who raised concerns that it might not connect every household in the census blocks at issue "are attacking the Commission’s decision to fund wholly unserved census blocks" in RDOF's first phase and partially unserved census blocks in the second. The Wireless ISP Association wants to reject the petition. WISPA didn't favor suggestions to "apply RDOF non-compliance measures to Charter, which is not an RDOF recipient."