Wireline Bureau Denies Starlink RDOF Petition

The FCC Wireline Bureau dismissed on procedural grounds and rejected Starlink's waiver request regarding its Rural Digital Opportunity Fund application in an order Friday in docket 19-126 (see 2402270083). The bureau said Starlink "did not demonstrate that it was eligible to receive RDOF support" and its petition "does not provide any new information or evidence of changed circumstances that rebut our previous determinations." The bureau also said the petition was "untimely" because requests for reconsideration must be filed within 30 days of a rule being published in the Federal Register. The bureau noted Starlink's petition was filed four years after the final RDOF rules were published.