Connect Iowa Releases Comprehensive Report Highlighting Broadband Progress, Needs in State
Access to broadband services at speeds of at least 50 Mbps download/1.5 Mbps upload has increased 54.08 percentage points since October in Iowa, said a news release from Connect Iowa about the Connect Iowa Final Grant Report. The report highlights…
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Connect Iowa's mapping, community planning and research since 2010 as part of the NTIA's State Broadband Initiative grant program. Over the course of its five-year grant period, Connect Iowa engaged 202 broadband providers in Iowa to collect data semi-annually on broadband access in the state, with 99.5 percent of all broadband providers in the state participating, to provide more than 3.5 million data records, the release said. Connect Iowa also independently validated the broadband access data for 93.07 percent of participating providers, and analyzed 7,441 speed tests taken by Iowans since 2010. Connect Iowa acknowledges it still has more work to do, though, because 324,607 households in Iowa are unable to subscribe to broadband at the national benchmark speed of 25 Mbps download/3 Mbps upload, the release said. The state website says there are 1.2 million households in Iowa.