---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 54.1012"
title: "47"
number: "54.1012"
heading: "Geographic areas eligible for support."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/54.1012"
---

# §54.1012. Geographic areas eligible for support.

- (a) 5G Fund support will be made available for geographic areas identified as eligible by public notice.
- (b) Coverage units for purposes of conducting competitive bidding and disbursing support based on square kilometers will be identified by public notice for each area eligible for support.
- (c) The geographic areas identified as eligible for support in the 5G Fund Phase I auction will be converted, to, and made available in, the form of hexagons at the resolution 9 level (hex-9s) using the H3 standardized geospatial indexing system defined in [§ 1.7001(a)(20)](/cfr/47/1.7001.md?p=a-20) of this chapter. All eligible hex-9s will then be grouped into census tracts for purposes of bidding in the auction.
  - (1) The hex-9s that are eligible for 5G Fund support in the 5G Fund Phase I auction will be generated using the following process:
    - (i) Overlay resolution 11 hexagons (hex-11s) on the “raw” mobile coverage polygons submitted in the Broadband Data Collection for 5G outdoor stationary coverage at speeds of at least 7/1 Mbps on unsubsidized areas, and on urban areas. If the centroid (i.e., the geographic center point) of the hex-11, overlaps any of those boundaries, then the entire hex-11 is considered covered by that boundary and “served.”
    - (ii) Divide the number of served grandchild hex-11s belonging to the grandparent hex-9 by the total number of grandchild hex-11s belonging to the grandparent hex-9 to determine the percentage of the hex-9 that is considered served. The centroid of a hex-11 must fall within the boundary of United States or its territories to be included in this calculation. For hex-9s with both land and water grandchild hex-11s, only the land hex-11s are considered in this calculation.
    - (iii) If a “substantial majority” of the grandchild hex-11s belonging to a grandparent hex-9 are served, then the entire hex-9 will be considered served. For purposes of this determination, a “substantial majority” is 70% or more.
  - (2) After completing the process described in [paragraphs (c)(1)(i) through (iii)](#c-1-i..c-1-iii) of this section, any hex-9 that is not considered served and that also contains at least one location or some portion of a road will be eligible for support in the 5G Fund Phase I auction.

## Notes

### Amendments

[76 FR 73877, Nov. 29, 2011, as amended at 89 FR 101398, Dec. 13, 2024]

### Source

Source: 76 FR 73877, Nov. 29, 2011, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 155, 201, 205, 214, 219, 220, 229, 254, 303(r), 403, 1004, 1302, 1601-1609, and 1752, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 62 FR 32948, June 17, 1997, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[76 FR 73877, Nov. 29, 2011, as amended at 89 FR 101398, Dec. 13, 2024]