CostQuest Associates said today that it has officially been contracted to provide broadband location data needed to update the National Broadband Map. The FCC selected the company months ago but the contract award was delayed because LightBox, another company that…
Vint Cerf, sometimes called the “father” of the Internet has three recommendations for how to use the tens of billions of dollars of funding that the government has made available for broadband. Some funding should go toward education, Cerf told…
Canada is going in a somewhat different direction from the U.S. when it comes to broadband mapping. The Canadian government has awarded a contract to create a broadband map to a company that uses artificial intelligence to mine numerous geospatial…
The NTIA is seeking input on implementing three broadband funding programs that were established in the infrastructure bill signed into law in November. In a 14-page request for comment (RFC), NTIA asks for input on 36 questions pertaining to the…
Two more states and two U.S. territories are now participating in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) National Broadband Availability Map (NBAM) project. Joining the project are Nevada, Louisiana, American Samoa and Puerto Rico, bringing the total of state…
The federal government is making an unprecedented amount of funding available for broadband deployments but still doesn’t know where broadband is and isn’t available. And according to broadband mapping experts on a webcast yesterday, we are unlikely to have an…
More than half of rural residents (55.4%) served by broadband service provider members of NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association have gigabit speed service available to them and more than three quarters can get 100 Mbps service, according to a new NTCA…
Hoboken, NJ; Dec. 8, 2021 – OpenVault, a market-leading source of revenue and network improvement solutions and data-driven actionable insights for the broadband industry, today announced a massive technology, market and business expansion with its acquisition of VelociData, Inc. The acquisition will…
Is the broadband industry approaching mutally assured destruction, also known as a “Convergence Apocalypse”? It’s a question explored in a new research note from MoffettNathanson Research. According to advocates of the Convergence Apocalypse theory, telcos’ increasingly ambitious fiber deployments pose…
The FCC has released a preliminary interactive mobile broadband map based on data provided by the nation’s four largest mobile carriers. The map is based on new parameters that were designed to overcome problems with previous carrier-submitted data — and…
A draft of the Senate infrastructure bill shows $40 billion in broadband funding going to individual states to go toward the cost of deploying broadband to unserved or underserved areas. The program would target areas lacking service at speeds of…
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