It's hard enough to buy internet from one internet service provider. Trying to compare prices and speeds across multiple ...

The FCC's inaccurate broadband maps have long made it difficult to distribute deployment grants where they're needed most. Current maps are based on the Form 477 data-collection program in which ...

Much like the old maps, the new FCC still doesn’t share data on broadband pricing, helping further obscure one of the most glaring symptoms of an unhealthy, monopoly-dominated market.

“The FCC's old broadband maps were not very good, not very good at all,” FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel stated the obvious at a recent tech conference in Washington, D.C. The replacement ...

As those subsidies have ballooned, state leaders have increasingly criticized the FCC mapping process in the hopes that better maps would mean faster broadband for constituents. To help tackle ...

So if you think internet access is important, do every like-minded person a favor: type your address into the FCC’s long-awaited new broadband maps and see if internet service providers are ...

Earlier today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)released its pre-production draft of its new broadband maps, providing morein-depth information about availability nationwide. The new ...

The maps will provide a more accurate initial picture of broadband availability throughout the U.S. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The agency plans to rely largely on the maps when allocating funds for the largest of these programs, the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program, or BEAD. Previous FCC ...

Until last year, the FCC based its broadband availability maps on census blocks. It assumed that if one home or business in a block had high-speed internet service, they all did. As the FCC itself ...

some states say that restrictive contracts they’ve signed with broadband data suppliers for their own maps could prevent them from providing strong evidence of mistakes to the FCC. A spokesman ...