A new reverse auction by the Nebraska Public Service Commission (PSC) will allow telecommunication companies to bid on funds, reports the Star Herald. The PSC’s order, NUSF-131, sets the procedure for the reverse auction to bring broadband services of at least 100 Mbps to certain census blocks in the state. The affected areas are primarily in northeast and south-central Nebraska.
This will be a first-of-its-kind effort for a state to pull off. “The FCC has done a couple reverse auctions, but to my knowledge, we’re the first state who’s tried to do one,” Cullen Robbins, the PSC’s director of telecommunications, told the Star-Herald. Continue Reading |
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