Media Contact: 
Charlie Meisch, (202) 418-2943
charles.meisch@fcc.gov  
For Immediate Release
FCC UNVEILS INITIAL MAP OF AREAS 
ELIGIBLE FOR MOBILITY FUND PHASE II SUPPORT
Challenge Process to Begin March 29, 2018
WASHINGTON, February 27, 2018—The Federal Communications Commission today 
released a map showing areas across the United States presumed eligible to receive support for 
the deployment of 4G LTE service as part of its Mobility Fund Phase II (MF-II) auction. 
The MF-II auction will make up to $4.53 billion in support available over 10 years to primarily 
rural areas that lack unsubsidized 4G LTE service.  MF-II is critically important to supporting 
mobile voice and broadband coverage, incentivizing the deployment of mobile wireless service 
through a reverse auction, and ensuring that 4G LTE service is preserved and advanced in 
those areas of the country that lack unsubsidized service.
The Commission also announced today the procedures for the challenge process in which 
mobile service providers and government entities will have an opportunity to challenge an 
initial determination that an area is ineligible for MF-II support.  The window for submitting a 
challenge opens on March 29, 2018, and will remain open until August 27, 2018.  The 
challenge process enables the Commission to resolve disputes quickly and ensures that 
support is allocated to the areas that need it most. 
“The Commission continues to move forward aggressively to close the digital divide for all 
Americans,” said Chelsea Fallon, Director of the Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force.  “The 
actions taken today, coupled with the Commission’s vote resolving petitions for 
reconsideration, signal that we are on course and on schedule to deliver support to areas across 
the country for high-speed mobile broadband.”
The initial eligible areas map is available here: www.fcc.gov/maps/mobility-fund-ii-initial-
eligible-areas-map/. 
For information on the challenge process, visit: www.fcc.gov/mobility-fund-phase-2.
The order resolving petitions for reconsideration is available here: 
https://www.fcc.gov/document/mobility-fund-phase-ii-second-order-reconsideration. 
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This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action.  Release of the full text of a Commission order 
constitutes official action.  See MCI v. FCC, 515 F.2d 385 (D.C. Cir. 1974).