[1st-mile-nm] National Broadband Statistics (We're doing OK ?)

[drew einhorn]

I started thinking about the data NM DOIT has been collecting, and started
looking around.  And found this: BROADBAND MAP GALLERY STATEWIDE MAPS
<http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/map_statewide.shtml>.  Looks very
interesting.  Haven't had time to take more than a very quick look.

How well do these maps jive with your sense of the 'ground truth'?

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org> wrote:

> According to yesterday's PR from the White House,
> "98 percent of Americans nationwide are now connected to high-speed
> wireless Internet".
> I wonder if the word should be "have access to" rather than are now
> connected to".
>
> And from Broadband Reports, "US connection speed has jumped 10 Mbps in the
> last year to 33.9 Mbps.
> That said, the US improvements were only enough to push it to 27th among
> the 199 countries ranked by average downstream speed."
>
>
> http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/US-Now-27th-Globally-With-Average-Speed-of-339-Mbps-133097
>
> Data sets are available at:
> http://www.netindex.com/download/2,1/United-States/
>
> While NM is still ranked near the bottom of the list of States,
> I have deep concern about these recent statistics, which do not seem to
> jive with 'ground truth'.
> While Comcast service has raised the bandwidth bar in NM and across the
> country,
> they do not serve most of the State and where they do offer some
> significant bandwidth,
> that bandwidth drops rapidly as service moves out to the periphery of
> their connected areas.
> That is the case for all the providers, though technical details vary.
>
> It would be very useful to have a state conduct a more accurate broadband
> survey,
> though access to the real needed data is a problem.
>
> RL
>
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-- 
Drew Einhorn

"You can see a lot by just looking."
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