CostQuest Associates

CostQuest Associates announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Federal Communications Commission to continue providing the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric, the foundational dataset underpinning the Commission’s Broadband Data Collection program. CostQuest was awarded the contract on September 4, 2026, following a competitive procurement process. The award reaffirms the company’s role in providing location-level data that federal, state, and local policymakers rely on to improve broadband mapping and expand connectivity across the United States. 

U.S. fiber broadband deployment is accelerating, and CostQuest’s newest fiber focus report offers a forward-looking view of where fiber coverage is expanding, who is building it, and how federal funding is reshaping the competitive map. Fiber is now serving 58.7 percent more U.S. homes and businesses than it did four years ago, with more than 26.6 million Broadband Serviceable Locations gaining fiber access since Version 1 of the Fabric, including 6 percent growth in just the past six months.

CostQuest Associates' July 2026 Broadband in America Report examines how served, underserved and unserved status shifted nationally and at the county and broadband serviceable location (BSL) level, offering a granular view of where coverage gains are real, where federal funding is producing measurable results, and how fiber and fixed wireless competition is reshaping local markets. The report finds that U.S.