USTelecom Discusses Broadband Mapping Consortium Pilot Project Preliminary Findings with FCC Commissioners

USTelecom met with FCC Commissioners Geoffrey Starks and Jessica Rosenworcel and their chiefs of staff on August 7 and 8, 2019 to discuss preliminary findings from the Broadband Mapping Consortium Pilot Project that USTelecom is leading along with ITTA and WISPA. USTelecom said structure counts per census block in the pilot states versus 2011 census housing structure data are incorrect for nearly 50% of census blocks, and the 2011 census housing structure data is both over-inclusive and under-inclusive. USTelecom suggested the Federal Communications Commission adopt a national data set of broadband serviceable locations consistent with USTelecom’s broadband serviceable location fabric proposal and urged the FCC to adopt the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric simultaneously as it moves forward with the establishment of the new shapefile broadband availability reporting capability.