Mercury Broadband Drops Multiple Ohio RDOF Projects

Mercury Broadband, which has notified the FCC it can't meet rural digital opportunity fund commitments in census tracts in multiple states (see 2411270049, 2411180044 and 2411060028), is relinquishing more than 50 census block groups in Ohio, it said in a default letter posted Wednesday in docket 19-126. As with past default notifications, Mercury said rising deployment costs have made the cost of extending its network to the RDOF census block groups economically unviable.