FCC Gives SpaceX $886M for 35-State Broadband Expansion

With its $886 million award from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to expand satellite broadband access in more than 640,000 locations across the United States.

In its RDOF awards announcement, the FCC said 99.7 percent of locations assigned to awardees “will be receiving broadband with speeds of at least 100/20 Mbps, with an overwhelming majority (over 85 percent) getting gigabit-speed broadband.”