In a public notice released yesterday, the FCC has established September 1, 2022 as the deadline for service providers to submit broadband availability data for inclusion in the long awaited update to the national broadband map. The schedule calls for…
Broadband availability data should improve with the passage of the Broadband DATA Act. The legislation now just awaits President Trump’s signature before becoming law. Data collected by the government until now has overstated broadband availability because an entire census block…
How bad is FCC broadband availability data? Researchers at BroadbandNow estimate that at least 20.7 million people considered to have broadband available to them can’t get service. The total unserved population nationwide is at least 42 million – about twice…
The FCC took the next step today toward establishing the $20.4 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund by adopting a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that outlines the parameters for that fund. The fund would cover some of the costs of…
Microsoft has joined a growing chorus of critics of FCC broadband availability data. The company’s concerns came to light as part of an update about the company’s Airband rural broadband initiative provided by Microsoft President Brad Smith, who also said…
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has joined a growing number of entities that have criticized the data that the FCC uses to determine where broadband is available. The FCC broadband availability data critique came in the form of a 50+…
The FCC has vastly overestimated rural broadband availability, according to a new report from the Center for Rural Affairs. The commission has been relying on Form 477 data in gauging where broadband is available for purposes of the Connect America…
The Department of Management Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) of the state of Iowa has published the fifth version of the state’s Broadband Availability Map. A month-long “challenge window” to enable various parties to comment on whether the…
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel is circulating a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) that would begin the commission’s annual analysis of the state of U.S. broadband. It proposes that the broadband speed definition be increased and recommends an even more ambitious longer…
Herndon, VA, July 13, 2022 – NRTC, a member-driven and technology-focused organization based in Herndon, Virginia, today announced the general availability of its Operational Intelligence platform. Operational Intelligence is a vendor-agnostic analytics platform that proactively helps optimize a broadband provider’s business….
Microsoft has unveiled what it calls a Digital Equity Data Dashboard that the company hopes will help in directing broadband funding to the right places. As a blog post from Vickie Robinson, general manager of the Microsoft Airband initiative explains,…
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