Federal Communications Commission	"FCC/DA  XX-XXX"


DA 20-611
June 11, 2020

TECHNICAL GUIDE ON BIDDING PROCEDURES 
FOR AUCTION 904 (RURAL DIGITAL OPPORTUNITY FUND PHASE I)
AU Docket No. 20-34

The Office of Economics and Analytics (OEA), in conjunction with the Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force and the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau), today makes available a guide that provides technical and mathematical details regarding the bidding procedures for Auction 904 (Phase I of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund).  The guide provides examples and serves as a supplement to the bidding and bid processing procedures for the descending clock auction as adopted by the Commission in the Auction 904 Procedures Public Notice. See Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I Auction Scheduled for October 29, 2020; Notice and Filing Requirements and Other Procedures for Auction 904, Public Notice, FCC 20-77, at 70-87, paras. 209-85 (June 11, 2020) (Auction 904 Procedures Public Notice).  The Commission directed OEA, in conjunction with the Bureau, to release a technical guide that provides further technical and mathematical detail of the bidding procedures for Auction 904.  Id. at 71, para. 215.
  The Auction 904 Technical Guide is available in the Education section of the Commission’s Auction 904 website (www.fcc.gov/auction/904).  
For further information concerning the technical guide, email auction904@fcc.gov or contact the FCC Auctions Hotline at (717) 338-2868.  
For further information concerning this proceeding, contact the offices listed below:
Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force
Michael Janson, (202) 418-0627
Kirk Burgee, (202) 418-1599
Jonathan McCormack, (202) 418-1065
Telecommunications Access Policy Division, Wireline Competition Bureau
Heidi Lankau, (202) 418-7400
Auctions Division, Office of Economics and Analytics
Mark Montano, (202) 418-0660

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