Mercury Broadband Surrenders Additional RDOF Census Block Groups

Mercury Broadband surrendered dozens of additional census block groups it won in the FCC's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction (see 2410250006). In a letter posted Wednesday in docket 19-126, the ISP said that a dramatic increase in deployment costs and "competitive encroachment" rendered many of the census block groups "economically unviable and ultimately unachievable."