FCC Broadband Mapping Order Increases Buffers for Fiber
The FCC’s broadband mapping order, approved Thursday, increases allowable distance between facilities for fiber and cable, per final text posted Friday. The FCC proposed in the draft a maximum distance of 6,600 route feet between the node to the end…
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point for everything. It sticks with that buffer for DSL but increases it to 12,000 feet for cable connections and 196,000 feet for fiber to the premises technologies. The change was expected (see 2007140060) after industry objected. As indicated Thursday, a proposed wireless infrastructure reporting requirement was moved to a Further NPRM. “We seek to refresh the record and seek further comment on collecting infrastructure information as part of the Digital Opportunity Data Collection,” the final FNPRM said: “Such information could help Commission staff independently verify the accuracy of provider coverage propagation models and maps submitted by mobile wireless service providers.” A staff report on problems in since-scuttled Mobility Fund Phase II “concluded that collecting such infrastructure data could help accurately verify mobile broadband coverage,” the FCC said: “Infrastructure data could advance the Broadband DATA Act’s requirement that we verify the accuracy and reliability of submitted coverage data.”