At its July 16, 2020 meeting, the FCC adopted a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“R&O and FNPRM”) to facilitate development of new broadband deployment maps and data ...

The Federal Communications Commission's ("FCC") recent release of the national Broadband Map, which purports to identify all locations in the U.S. where fixed and mobile broadband internet service ...

The success of investments in broadband equity depends on pinpointing where gaps exist. New maps from Utah State University’s Center for Growth and Opportunity aim to bring them into better focus.

FCC’s new broadband map greatly ... of over 60,000 broadband-serviceable locations. The map also lists service availability ... from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment ...

The new maps will be used to help distribute $42.45 billion from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program created by Congress in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

"The Georgia broadband map is the most granular in the nation," Gigi Sohn, an FCC staffer from 2013 to 2016 under Chairman Tom Wheeler and current distinguished fellow at Georgetown Law Institute ...

That’s important because a new pile of federal money — $42.45 billion via the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program — is being distributed on the basis of how many ...

Based on real-world experiences in Montana and other areas, experts offer these best practices for implementing location data services and creating broadband coverage maps: ...

For some time, it’s been no secret that the Federal Communications Commission’s Form 477 data overestimates broadband coverage in the United States. In response, Georgia took matters into its ...

Of the 2.6 million serviceable locations noted on the map, 131,373 locations are considered underserved for 100/20 Mbps service, while 278,270 are considered unserved.

The map will help the Office of Broadband Development determine how to efficiently distribute $1.7 billion it received from the federal Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program.

The discrepancy was tracked using data from the FCC’s map and Virginia’s broadband connectivity map, the Commonwealth Connection. Through that method, the DHCD identified 248,000 addresses.