by Eva Short, December 6, 2019
The chair of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Ajit Pai, announced
on Wednesday (4 December) that the FCC plans to launch a $9bn 5G fund to aid the
roll-out of next-generation telecoms technology in rural parts of the US.
The investment will be allocated through a reverse auction and will target primarily
“hard-to-serve” areas – in other words, ones with sparse populations and/or rugged
terrain. A portion of the fund, around $1bn, will be set aside for deployments
facilitating precision-agriculture needs.
