An application must carry a detailed and documented proposal
What the document says“An applicant for a new covered funding award shall include in the initial application a proposal containing sufficient detail and documentation for the Commission to ascertain that the applicant possesses the technical, financial, and operational capabilities, and has a reasonable business plan, to deploy the proposed network”
The qualifications the previous entry refers to. The proposal goes in the initial application, not later, and it has to carry enough detail and documentation for the Commission to satisfy itself of four things: technical, financial and operational capability, and a reasonable business plan. The full sentence continues, requiring that the same showing extend to delivering services with the performance characteristics and requirements the Commission defines and the applicant pledges.
What the document actually says“An applicant for a new covered funding award shall include in the initial application a proposal containing sufficient detail and documentation for the Commission to ascertain that the applicant possesses the technical, financial, and operational capabilities, and has a reasonable business plan, to deploy the proposed network”
Someone who wants this money must send a plan with the first form. The plan must show skill, money, and a way to run the network.
The FCC has to be able to check the claim for itself. So the plan needs facts and papers behind it. A promise on its own is not enough. It must come in with the first form.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.