You need only plug your address into the FCC’s most recentbroadband map, at a cost of $350 million, to see how the government often overstates broadband speeds and competitors on a block by block basis. The FCC has also long been criticized for not collecting and sharing broadband pricing...
FCC to propose new broadband plan.This article reports on the move of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to propose a broadband strategy after a court ruled against the authority of the commission to set Internet rules.EBSCO_bspGlobal Telecoms Business...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, under the purview of the US Commerce Department, developed the map using a combination of data from both public and private sources. The result is a map that shows far more people not served by broadband than the FCC's maps indicate....
As part of its Measuring Broadband America Program, the FCCannouncedthe release of a speed test app. The information collected through the app will help to inform the FCC’s efforts to provide improved coverage information to the public. “We expect that some of the information collected through...
SYRACUSE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LAW REPORTER Out With the Old, In With the New: The FCC and the Paradox of Broadband Access Mandates INTRODUCTION One of the most well-known laws is one of science鈥攆or every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. When considering recent trends in...
Residents with broadband access (speeds at or over 100/20 Mbps): 100% Residents with access to gigabit speeds (at or over 1,000/100 Mbps): 45% Median download speed in New York: 277.66 MbpsSources: FCC coverage maps and data, Ookla speed tests, internal speed test results and provider ...
FCC Chairman Julius GenachowskiFCC Exactly, how he plans to do this is something that broadband providers, such as AT&T, Verizon Communications, and Comcast, are watching carefully. The new chairman has not been vocal yet about how he stands on many issues that will affect these companies. ...
This iBrief discusses a recent Court of Appeals decision remanding FCC rules on the "unbundling" of Internet services by telephone exchange carriers. These rules ordered many Internet service providers to share their equipment with competitors, so that consumers could choose their providers instead of...
“It’s unfortunate that the new map is hitting at the same time as the grant process — that’s just very poor timing,” said Doug Dawson, president of CCG Consulting, a national telecommunications consulting firm. The new maps will still be based on data reported to the FCC by internet...
To update broadband maps depicting where fixed and mobile broadband services are available, the Regulatory bodies such as FCC (Federal Communications Commission in the USA) has launched the Broadband Data Collection (BDC) program. Coverage maps collected through BDC filings will equip operators and gov...