1. Of the proposed $16B in awards available, FCC ended up awarding around $9.2B for Phase 1, the rest for Phase 2 needs. Out of 386 candidates, only 180 were selected winners.  ILECS/RECs/Wireless Providers/Tier 1 & 2s won approximately 85% of the RDOF reverse auction funds; some of the other big winners include, all won with the push for 100 Mbps Down/20 Mbps Up:

• Rural Electric Cooperative Consortium, which won $1.1 billion for 618,000 locations in 22 states
• Space Exploration Technologies Corp, which won $885.5 million for 642,000 locations in 35 states
• Windstream, which won $522.9 million for 192,567 locations in 18 states
• Frontier, which won $370.9 million for 127,188 locations in eight states
• AMG Technology Investment Group, which has been a bidding entity for Nextlink, which won $429.2 million for 206,136 locations in 12 states
• ReSound Networks, which won $310,681,00 for 219,239 locations in seven states
• CenturyLink, which won $262.3 million for 77,257 locations in 20 states

2. Satellite Vendors took 15% of the RDOF, which opens up a whole new game, professing to offer up 100 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up. These numbers will be watched carefully across the board.