<div dir="ltr">I started thinking about the data NM DOIT has been collecting, and started looking around. And found this: <a href="http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/map_statewide.shtml">BROADBAND MAP GALLERY STATEWIDE MAPS</a>. Looks very interesting. Haven't had time to take more than a very quick look. <div><br></div><div>How well do these maps jive with your sense of the 'ground truth'?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Richard Lowenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.org" target="_blank">rl@1st-mile.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">According to yesterday's PR from the White House,<br>
"98 percent of Americans nationwide are now connected to high-speed wireless Internet".<br>
I wonder if the word should be "have access to" rather than are now connected to".<br>
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And from Broadband Reports, "US connection speed has jumped 10 Mbps in the last year to 33.9 Mbps.<br>
That said, the US improvements were only enough to push it to 27th among the 199 countries ranked by average downstream speed."<br>
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<a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/US-Now-27th-Globally-With-Average-Speed-of-339-Mbps-133097" target="_blank">http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/US-Now-27th-Globally-With-Average-Speed-of-339-Mbps-133097</a><br>
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Data sets are available at:<br>
<a href="http://www.netindex.com/download/2,1/United-States/" target="_blank">http://www.netindex.com/download/2,1/United-States/</a><br>
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While NM is still ranked near the bottom of the list of States,<br>
I have deep concern about these recent statistics, which do not seem to jive with 'ground truth'.<br>
While Comcast service has raised the bandwidth bar in NM and across the country,<br>
they do not serve most of the State and where they do offer some significant bandwidth,<br>
that bandwidth drops rapidly as service moves out to the periphery of their connected areas.<br>
That is the case for all the providers, though technical details vary.<br>
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It would be very useful to have a state conduct a more accurate broadband survey,<br>
though access to the real needed data is a problem.<br>
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RL<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Drew Einhorn<br><br>"You can see a lot by just looking." <br> -- Yogi Berra</div>
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