Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-73not60
§950bb–4 Outdated Broadband Systems
Title 7 › Chapter 31— RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELEPHONE SERVICE › Subchapter VI— RURAL BROADBAND ACCESS › § 950bb–4
Summary
The Secretary must treat any part of a service area that is covered by a current grant with a broadband provider as unserved for federal broadband aid programs if the broadband there is less than 10 Mbps download or less than 1 Mbps upload. If the provider has built or begun building service in that area that meets the minimum service level set in section 950bb(e), the Secretary must not treat it as unserved.
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Title 7, §950bb–4
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(a)Except as provided in subsection (b), the Secretary shall consider any portion of a service territory that is subject to an outstanding grant agreement between the Secretary and a broadband provider to be unserved for the purposes of all broadband assistance programs under this chapter, if the broadband service in that portion of a service territory is less than 10 Mbps downstream transmission capacity or less than 1 Mbps upstream transmission capacity.
(b)The Secretary shall not consider a portion of a service territory described in subsection (a) to be unserved if the broadband service provider has constructed or begun to construct broadband facilities that meet the minimum acceptable level of service established under section 950bb(e) of this title, in that portion of the service territory.
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Effective Date
Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6205(b), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4739, provided that: “The amendment made by this section [enacting this section] shall not take effect until October 1, 2020.”
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Citation
7 U.S.C. § 950bb–4
Title 7, Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
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