Word that the National Broadband Map needs fixing seems to have spread throughout the nation’s capital. The latest initiative aimed at addressing National Broadband Map problems comes from the U.S. Senate in the form of the Broadband Data Improvement Act…
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has begun the process of updating the National Broadband Map, which has received considerable criticism in recent months. The agency said it would work with eight states – California, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina,…
The omnibus bill to fund the federal government that is currently before Congress calls for $7.5 million to go to the National Telecommunications and Information Agency (NTIA) to update National Broadband Map data in coordination with the FCC and using…
The FCC today made live an updated National Broadband Map, replacing one originally released seven years ago. National Broadband Map updates include more relevant speed tiers, as well as the ability to overlay satellite imagery, to compare two different areas,…
Tier 2 cable service provider Cable One says it provides broadband service in 338 census blocks where an unnamed price cap carrier claims there is no broadband. The information was part of a filing made by the American Cable Association,…
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration on Friday announced the completion of its twice-yearly update of the National Broadband Map. Initially launched just over a year ago, the interactive map is now based on a searchable database of more than…
Accessible via mobile devices, the National Broadband Map (NBM) has been enhanced to make it easier for users to search for broadband availability, summarize and rank data and view a map of community anchor institutions, the NTIA/FCC announced on the…
Two FCC officials tried this week to drum up support for the commission’s plan to reform the Universal Service program by issuing a map they said “shows with striking clarity that large swaths of our nation are being bypassed by…
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration yesterday rolled out what it called “the first significant update” of the National Broadband Map since it was unveiled in February. The move comes as part of a planned twice-yearly update of the interactive…
There have been a lot of grumblings about inaccuracies in the National Broadband Map released earlier this year, including some from Telecompetitor readers. This week, ID Insight, an organization that independently tracks broadband availability, issued a formal critique of the…
When the National Telecommunications and Information Agency released its interactive National Broadband Map last month, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski invited web developers to use the map’s open application programming interfaces to create new applications drawing on the map…
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