States are making plans for awarding funding in the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, which has a total budget of $42.5 billion to cover some of the costs of deploying broadband in unserved rural areas. A key issue…
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Maryland Wants More Time on Broadband Map Challenges
Both Maryland senators and seven of state’s eight members of Congress sent a letter to FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel last week asking for more time to file challenges to the current version of the commission’s National Broadband Map. According to…
EXCLUSIVE: CostQuest Breaks Its Silence on Broadband Map Issues
The FCC’s update of the National Broadband Map has received considerable criticism. And some of that criticism has been leveled at CostQuest, the contractor that created the database of broadband serviceable locations nationwide that is a key underpinning of the…
BEAD Director to States: You Can Fix Broadband Map Problems
States have the opportunity to correct some of the deficiencies of the FCC National Broadband Map, according to comments made by Evan Feinman, director of the NTIA’s $42.5 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program on a webinar last…
T-Mobile, Verizon Reportedly Exaggerating FCC Broadband Map Data: We Dig Into the Details
Service providers including Verizon and T-Mobile have exaggerated their fixed wireless access (FWA) coverage in rural areas, potentially preventing those areas from being eligible for funding in the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, according to a…
Mending the Fabric: FCC Says to File Broadband Location Challenges by March 15- What About BEAD?
The FCC is encouraging state and local governments and broadband providers to file bulk challenges to the commission’s broadband serviceable location database by March 15. Bulk challenges received by that date are most likely to be addressed in time to…
Alaska (Still) Aims to Use State Broadband Map to Get Its Fair Share of BEAD Funding
Engineering firm Dewberry, in collaboration with mapping company Ecopia AI, Rasmuson Foundation and the State of Alaska, is working on a broadband map based on what Ecopia AI is calling “an accurate, up-to-date and complete map of every building, in…
NTIA: Next Broadband Map Won’t Be Delayed, But There May Be Wiggle Room on Some Challenges
The NTIA said Friday that the next update to the National Broadband Map will come out June 30 as planned, rejecting requests made by some states for an extension. Those states wanted more time to file challenges to map data….
Second FCC Broadband Data Collection Begins January 3, Deadline March 1
The FCC said today that the second Broadband Data Collection (BDC) will begin January 3. Broadband service providers have until March 1 to input their information as of December 31, 2022 into the BDC system. The Broadband Data Collection is…
Top Broadband News of 2022: From FWA to Multi-Gig to the Funding Boom and More
There’s a lot going on in broadband these days, so I’ll skip the intro and launch right into the top broadband news of 2022. In no particular order, the big stories include: Telcos’ Broadband Turnaround Now that telcos are more…
FCC Will Have to Act Fast on the Next Broadband Map Update
Update March 2023: The post below was written based on information that had been released from the FCC and NTIA as of the date written. Since the post was originally published, we have learned additional information that supercedes what was…
FCC Will Release Updated Broadband Map on November 18 with Caveats
The FCC said it will release a pre-production draft of an updated broadband map on November 18. The commission noted that this will “begin an ongoing, iterative process that will improve the data submitted by providers by incorporating challenges from…
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