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– GeoLinks, the fastest growing telecommunications company in California, today announced that it has entered into a deal to acquire 208 Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) band spectrum licenses from Verizon covering markets across the United States. Thanks to this acquisition, we will be able to deliver superior solutions to existing carriers in the largest cities in the U.S., expand service in suburban areas, and bring connectivity to more underserved markets, all while maintaining our commitment to excellence and reliability. ” GeoLinks plans to utilize the acquired spectrum to support its current and growing customer base, offering faster speeds with fixed point-to-point and point-to-multi-point wireless services, and provide backhaul for 5G services. Headquartered in Southern California and ranked on Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America three-years running, GeoLinks delivers Enterprise-Grade Internet, Digital Voice, SD-WAN, Cloud On-ramping, Layer 2 Transport, and both Public and Private Turnkey Network Construction expertly tailored for businesses and Anchor Institutions nationwide.

Co. Dr. Marber has a long history teaching and has held positions at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, and New York University. GeoLinks Board Members include Skyler Ditchfield, Co-Founder and CEO, GeoLinks; Ryan Hauf, Co-Founder and CTO, GeoLinks; Tom Krause, Ph.D, innovator, entrepreneur and consultant and Chairman of the Board, GeoLinks; and David Stonehill, Founder, Managing Partner, Rock Mountain Capital. Board Advisors include Rachelle Chong, former Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission and former California Public Utilities Commission; Louis Fox, President & CEO of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC); Van E. Snowdon, esteemed wireless telecom and technology industry executive, and Richard Wolpert, a pioneer in the fields of software development, technology, consumer digital media and entertainment. Headquartered in Southern California and ranked on Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America three-years running, GeoLinks delivers Enterprise-Grade Internet, Digital Voice, SD-WAN, Cloud On-ramping, Layer 2 Transport, and both Public and Private Turnkey Network Construction expertly tailored for businesses and Anchor Institutions nationwide.

GeoLinks, the fastest growing telecommunications company in California, today announced that Rachelle Chong, a former Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, and Richard Wolpert, a pioneer in the fields of software development, technology, consumer digital media and entertainment, have been named Board Advisors, effective immediately. Mr. Wolpert is responsible for many “firsts” throughout his career including conceiving of and teaching the first Macintosh Programming Class at Stanford University (CS 193C), the first multi-user address book for the Macintosh (TouchBase), the first kids internet subscription service (Disney’s Daily Blast), the first Tivo-like product for Internet Radio (BitBopTuner), the first legitimate music subscription service for the Internet (MusicNet), and the first legitimate online movie subscription service (Starz! Mr. Wolpert is a member of the Board of UCLA School of Theater Film and Television, a member of the Board of Governors of Cedars Sinai Hospital, a longtime Board Member and previous President of Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America, Founder of CCFA’s Camp Oasis and a Trustee of The Grayson Wolpert Memorial Fund. GeoLinks Board Members include Skyler Ditchfield, Co-Founder and CEO, GeoLinks; Ryan Adams, President and COO, GeoLinks; Ryan Hauf, CTO, GeoLinks; Tom Krause, Ph.D., innovator, entrepreneur and consultant and Chairman of the Board, GeoLinks; and David Stonehill, Founder, Managing Partner, Rock Mountain Capital.

Although the apparent strategy of making it relatively easy for bidders to pass the short-form application stage “succeeded” in attracting a large number of bidders who drove down subsidy levels and created the appearance of extending gigabit service to many rural areas, this strategy is likely to boomerang by resulting in (a) a large number of defaults at the long-form stage, assuming the Commission carries out its stated intention to vet applications carefully; and (b) many RDOF awards going to companies who prove unable to perform their public service obligations, especially if the vetting of applications is less thorough. The Commission will not even determine non-compliance with the final buildout requirements until after six or eight years, and then will give the company another 12 months to remedy its non-compliance Rural customers may get no service for nine years, and then have to wait for the Commission (presumably) to conduct a new auction or some other process to find a different company that is willing to serve them. GeoLinks recognizes that the ability of winning bidders to perform cannot be known until the Commission reviews the long-form applications for both technical and financial adequacy, and sees how many winning applicants are able to obtain commitments for letters of credit. I respectfully urge the Commission to take action on these points as quickly as possible, before the processing of long-form applications is completed, to maximize the number of rural customers who will benefit from RDOF-funded deployment.