[roamingryan]

Does anyone know why Hughes, a OneWeb investor, placed and won bids solely within the state of Rhode Island? Is this some sort of squatting play to qualify them for future solicitations?

Given the state of OneWeb, it seems very unlikely they will be able to deliver even across such a tiny geographic area.

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I assume the Hughes bids are for HughesNet not OneWeb.

[octoberfranklin]

Yeah there is a scheme where a bidder can "assign" their winning bid to a subsidiary. A lot of telcos are required to keep their local exchanges as unmerged separate corporations for regulatory reasons.

[roamingryan]

Interesting because HughesNet as it exists today is serviced with GEO satellites. These can't hit the latency requirements of the RDOF program

Only the OneWeb sats at LEO can deliver on the latency requirements.

It will be interesting to see what happens as the FCC reviews the "long form" applications.

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RDOF has a high-latency tier to accommodate GEO.