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  "description": "Telecom giant offers no reason for relinquishments",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-06-09T20:38:04.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "_a letter_",
    "_won the rights to over 77,000 locations_",
    "_previously defaulted on over 3,500 locations_",
    "_it blamed rising deployment costs and inaccurate location counts for its default_",
    "_particularly pertinent_",
    "_a growing list_",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, June 9, 2025 – Lumen Technologies announced Friday that it was relinquishing control of over 41,000 Rural Digital Opportunity Fund locations spread across eight states and 153 census block groups.\n\nIn _a letter_ sent to the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau Chief **Joseph Calascione** , Lumen stated that it was “returning all census block groups (“CBGs”) where it was awarded RDOF funding” in Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, and Washington.\n\nHeaded by CEO **Kate Johnson** , the Monroe, La. based internet-service provider did not give a reason for the relinquishment, stating only that it “understands that it will no longer be entitled to receive further RDOF support for the surrendered CBGs and that it may be subject to applicable non-compliance rules.”\n\nLumen, then known as CenturyLink, _won the rights to over 77,000 locations_ in a December 2020 reverse auction hosted by the Federal Communications Commission. The ISP _previously defaulted on over 3,500 locations_ in August 2024, including all of its planned locations in Wyoming, New Mexico, and South Dakota, and most of its locations in Colorado. At that time, _it blamed rising deployment costs and inaccurate location counts for its default_.\n\nCollectively, the surrendered locations total over half of all locations awarded to Lumen by the RDOF program. The default is _particularly pertinent_ to residents of Montana, Washington, and Oregon, states where Lumen held 21 percent, 15 percent, and 11 percent of all RDOF locations respectively.\n\nLumen joins _a growing list_ of companies that have defaulted in recent months on their RDOF obligations. _As of March_, over $3.3 billion of the $9.2 billion awarded in the RDOF auction has been defaulted on, though most defaults have occurred before final approvals.\n\nThough it is uncertain what penalties, if any, the company might face, the FCC _has made known its intention_ to hold defaulting program participants _accountable_.",
  "title": "Lumen Defaults on More Than 41,000 RDOF Locations",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T03:28:05.550Z"
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