Wicker Nixes Plans for FY 2019 Funding Challenge to MF-II Data, Amid FCC Investigation
Senate Communications Subcommittee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., told us Monday night he's abandoning plans for an amendment to FY 2019 federal spending legislation that would force the FCC to revisit its Mobility Fund phase II broadband-service coverage data (see 1812050049).…
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Wicker cited the FCC's decision last week to investigate if top wireless carriers submitted incorrect coverage maps in violation of MF II rules (see 1812070048). Longstanding concerns about the FCC's broadband mapping tactics “would be moot” given the new investigation, Wicker said. “I don't think the [MF-II] auction will proceed any time soon based on the investigation that's going to be required.”