[1st-mile-nm] National Broadband Map

[Tom Johnson]

"...98 percent of the country has access to wireless broadband..."

Gee, I guess this means I'm a 2 percent-er.

tj


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Tom Johnson
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org> wrote:

> *Personal Note:  I do not know how to rely on the broadband access
> findings noted below,*
> *as I work and travel through the rural West, and find that the available
> bandwidth reality*
> *on the ground is so much less than that indicated on the National
> Broadband Map, and *
> *therefore on the statements of federal agencies and the White House.
> This has troubling *
> *consequences, if the (growing) 'digital divide' is to be effectively
> addressed and mitigated.*
> *RL*
>
>
> NATIONAL BROADBAND MAP
> [SOURCE: National Telecommunications and Information Administration,
> AUTHOR: Anne Neville]
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> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2015/national-broadband-map-has-helped-chart-broadband-evolution
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> The National Telecommunications and Information Administration released
> updated broadband map data, current as of June 30, 2014. The most
> significant finding from the latest data is that the United States has met
> the President’s goal of ensuring 98 percent of the country has access to
> wireless broadband at a speed of at least 6 megabits per second (Mbps)
> down/1.5 Mbps up. Other key findings from the June 30, 2014 dataset include:
>
> As we have seen in every data release since our first in February 2011,
> broadband speeds continue to increase. The rate at which we are seeing
> speeds increase, however, is slower at every national speed threshold that
> we track.
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> At lower speeds, Internet access is widely available across both rural and
> urban areas. The latest data shows that 99 percent of the country has
> access to advertised broadband speeds at 10 megabits per second (Mbps)
> through either wired or wireless services, and 93 percent have access to
> this speed through wired service alone.
>
> Nearly 85 percent of the country has access to wired broadband at a speed
> of 25 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up, which is the Federal Communications
> Commission’s (FCC) new benchmark level for broadband speeds. Cable provides
> 82.69 percent of the U.S. population with speeds of 25 Mbps or more, while
> fiber to the premises serves about one in four Americans (24.20 percent) at
> that speed.
>
> However, there is still a big gap between urban and rural areas when it
> comes to access to broadband at 25 Mbps. The latest data finds that only 55
> percent of those in rural communities, and 32 percent of tribal lands have
> access to broadband at 25 mbps compared with 94 percent of urban areas.
>
> NTIA’s State Broadband Initiative (SBI), which funded grants to collect
> the data used in the Broadband Map, is coming to a close. This data is the
> last set of data that states will collect under this program. NTIA is
> transitioning the broadband map to the FCC which will collect data as part
> of its 477 data collection program.
>
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> 505-603-5200                 rl at 1st-mile.org
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