NTCA Releases Broadband/Internet Availability Survey Report

NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association released its 2022 Broadband/Internet Availability Survey Report highlighting the ongoing efforts of rural broadband providers to deliver better broadband services to rural Americans. Survey highlights include: 

• NTCA members continue to deploy fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks that enable increasingly higher speeds in rural communities.
• More customers are subscribing to higher speeds as they become available.
• NTCA members continue to provide critically important broadband service to schools, libraries, and other anchor institutions in their communities.
• There’s still more work to do, and the sustainability of networks remains important. The last 20% of customers are historically the hardest and most expensive to reach, and respondents estimate that the average initial construction cost to bring all customers up to the 100 Mbps (downstream) level of service is $30 million.

Read the full report here.