Recently, the US FCC chairman Ajit Pai announced that he plans to start a $ 9 billion 5G fund for rural areas in the United States to start the development of advanced mobile wireless technology nationwide.

The fund will replace the Mobility Fund Phase II in the original plan, which will provide federal support for 4G LTE services in non-service areas.

The news was released at the same time as a report on Mobility II. In the report, service providers must submit 4G LTE coverage data to help determine targets. The FCC has stated that the data is not reliable enough to drive Mobility II.

Specifically, after some parties lodged a complaint, the staff began to worry that the data submitted by Verizon, US Cellular and T-Mobile exaggerated their coverage. So it could not accurately reflect the actual coverage. The FCC said that inaccurate data does not help the agency focus federal support where it is needed.

The Mobility Fund was established in 2011 with the purpose of maintaining and expanding mobile broadband and voice services to areas where service levels are low or of low quality. The first phase of the mobile fund invested $ 350 million in one-time grants. In order to completely fill the national 4G LTE service coverage loophole, the FCC is expected to launch the second phase of the 10-year mobile fund plan starting from 2017. The plan will be implemented by auction, with an annual subsidy of about US $ 453 million. The bidders are required to deploy and maintain 4G LTE networks in uneconomic areas, and expand services to areas lacking government subsidies.