Microsoft Suggests FCC Data Overstates Broadband Availability
FCC data "appears to overstate the extent to which broadband is actually available throughout the nation," said Microsoft, noting the data "underpins" Form 477 and an annual Telecom Act Section 706 report. "In some areas the Commission’s broadband availability data…
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suggests that [ISPs] have reported significant broadband availability (25 Mbps down/3 Mbps up) while Microsoft’s usage data indicates that only a small percentage of consumers actually access the Internet at broadband speeds in those areas," said a filing posted Monday on meeting an aide to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks in docket 18-238. Improve broadband measurements "by drawing on the FCC’s subscription data, along with other broadband data sets from third-parties," it added: Change "survey instructions to focus more narrowly on identifying where broadband is actually being used, without including where it could be used, as is required today."