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The mapping project was part of a much larger project perhaps involving seven billion dollars [6] for a National Broadband Plan that had, among other goals, bringing high speed Internet service to rural areas. [5] [7] State governments such as New Hampshire, [8] North Carolina, and Minnesota attempted broadband maps, as did nations in Africa.
Broadband.gov offers resources for consumers to see the local effects of the National Broadband Plan, and broadband as a whole. Featured is a Consumer Broadband Test that reports a user's internet download and upload speeds, latency and jitter. The government then uses these resources to analyze the nation's broadband quality, and to plan ...
Wireline broadband availability showing locations where the maximum advertised download speed is 3 Mbit/s or more (December 2012). [7] In 2019, Microsoft criticized the FCC for relying on ISPs to self-report availability, and said internal usage data indicated the FCC maps overstate actual availability. [8]
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration published a new map depicting what experts have long warned: Many parts of America — largely in poor, rural and tribal areas ...
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Oct. 21—The West Virginia Economic Development Office has originated a map of broadband infrastructure which will guide Gov. Jim Justice's plan of bringing internet service to hundreds of ...
The city of San Francisco, California has released a feasibility study for government and public broadband via fiber optics. This was the result of San Francisco supervisors' vote to adopt a resolution to encourage certain city departments to consider installing FTTP for use primarily in city operations.
Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan is a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plan to improve Internet access in the United States.The FCC was directed to create the plan by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and unveiled its plan on March 16, 2010.