Comments Due March 26 on FCC 'Amnesty Period' for RDOF and CAF II Recipients

The FCC Wireline Bureau wants comments by March 26, replies April 9, in docket 19-126 on a coalition request for amnesty for certain Rural Digital Opportunity Fund and Connect America Fund II recipients, a public notice Tuesday said (see 2402280078). The coalition, which included nearly 70 ISPs, trade associations, state and local officials, and school districts, sought an amnesty period for support recipients "who cannot or do not intend to build their networks, a very short and expedited amnesty period of no more than a month that allows them to relinquish all or part of their winning areas without being penalized to the full extent that the commission’s rules provide."