Revised Broadband Deployment Data Still Suspect, Microsoft Says
Even the FCC's revised broadband deployment data is potentially relying on inaccurate coverage data, Microsoft emailed us Friday. The agency said revised data still points to a closing digital divide in rural America (see 1905010205). Microsoft said there's "strong evidence"…
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-- including the company's data and FCC subscription data -- that broadband isn't available to millions of people "even though the FCC's data says that it is." It said the agency "didn’t create this data collection problem but [has] an opportunity to fix it." Microsoft has urged changes to Form 477 and use of both availability and actual usage and/or subscription data as a benchmark for progress.