Broadband Map Overstates Coverage to 4 Million Homes, Phoenix Center Says
FCC current broadband mapping, relying on a model where all homes in a census block are considered covered if a single home has access, overstates availability by 3.3 points, meaning roughly 4 million homes nationwide don't have broadband but are…
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counted as covered, said Phoenix Center Chief Economist George Ford Thursday. He said overstatement rates are higher for rural regions. The study looked at Form 477 data for California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming. It said mapping indicates 95.7 percent of households have broadband service there under the all-in census block assumption, but his model predicts 92.4 percent nationwide. The FCC will vote in August on new broadband mapping data collection procedures (see 1907110071).