Senate Passes Bill for Broadband Mapping

Before the Senate paused for recess, it passed a bill introduced by Senator Deb Fisher of Nebraska that would require the Federal Communications Commission to undertake a major review of its broadband mapping system. The bill is labeled the Modernization, Accountability, and Planning for Broadband Funding Act. It’s not hard to understand why there are folks who lobbied Congress to ask the FCC to pay more attention to the maps. Anybody who has ever used the current BDC broadband mapping can describe problems and errors in the map. However, I can’t be the only one who thinks that making this request to the FCC now, as States are in the process of awarding Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment grants to intetnet service providers, is too little, too late.