NCTA Defends Shapefile Broadband Mapping Plan
NCTA defended its shapefiles-centric broadband mapping plan Friday, in response to complaints by Broadband Coalition members USTelecom, ITTA and the Wireless ISP Association (see 1904150059). “The heart of NCTA’s proposal is a transition from the current requirement to report a…
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list of census blocks where broadband is available to a new regime where providers would submit shapefiles representing the area where they make service available,” NCTA said in docket 11-10. “Rather than waiting around for a theoretically perfect approach to broadband data collection to materialize, the Commission should move forward with structuring a program that is tolerant of the imperfections that are inherent in any data exercise of this magnitude.”