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The grant requires applicants to meet these benchmarks by 2025. Only SpaceX came close to meeting this standard and only SpaceX is being denied the grant for not yet meeting this requirement.

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kalleboo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

“* RDOF rules set speeds of 25/3 Mbps as the minimum allowed for broadband service delivered by winners. However, participants were permitted to bid at four different performance tiers: 25/3 Mbps, 50/5 Mbps, 100/20 Mbps and 1 Gbps/500 Mbps*”

If SpaceX had bid on a lower tier of service that they were actually capable of delivering, they would have been fine.

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