PUBLIC NOTICE
Federal Communications Commission
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DA 18-305
Released:  March 27, 2018
 MOBILITY FUND PHASE II MAP TO BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR 
THE CHALLENGE PROCESS
WC Docket No. 10-90
WT Docket No. 10-208
The Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force (Task Force), in conjunction with the Wireline 
Competition Bureau and the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (the Bureaus), intends to release a 
map of areas presumptively ineligible for Mobility Fund Phase II (MF-II) support due to qualifying, 
unsubsidized coverage reported by one mobile provider.
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  Release of this map will help ensure a timely 
and effective MF-II challenge process as the map will inform challengers of those areas for which they 
will need to test the coverage of only one unsubsidized mobile provider.  The Task Force and Bureaus 
plan to release the map on April 10, 2018, and it will be available on the FCC’s website at 
https://www.fcc.gov/mobility-fund-phase-2.  
For further information concerning the MF-II challenge process, please email 
mf2challengeprocess@fcc.gov or contact Jonathan McCormack, Auctions and Spectrum Access Division, 
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, at (202) 418-0660. 
– FCC –
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 Although the Commission will continue to treat provider-specific coverage maps as confidential information, the 
map will be released publicly.  As was the case with the map of presumptively eligible areas, in certain 
circumstances it may be possible to determine some otherwise-confidential information from the publicly-released 
information.  See Comment Sought on Mobility Fund Phase II Challenge Process Procedures and Technical 
Implementation, Public Notice, 32 FCC Rcd 7596, 7599, para. 5 n.20 (WCB/WTB 2017).  We find, however, that 
release of this map will significantly increase the efficiency of the MF-II funding process by identifying those areas 
where challenge speed tests can be undertaken more easily because challengers will not need to test multiple 
networks. The Commission has a strong interest in ensuring that funding is available to all areas that are eligible and 
the challenge process plays an important role in that process.  Accordingly, we find that it is in the public interest to 
publicly release information about areas that are presumptively ineligible due to the qualifying, unsubsidized 
coverage reported by only one mobile provider even though some provider-specific coverage information may be 
implicitly revealed.