Cable Raises Crowdsourcing Concerns With Commissioners
Crowdsourced data can be useful in refining the accuracy of the FCC's broadband deployment map, but that data may not be accurate about service performance and availability and there's questionable value in publishing it without verification, said NCTA, Cox Communications,…
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GCI and Charter Communications in meetings with aides to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Mike O'Rielly, according to a docket 11-10 ex parte posting Monday. The cablers said the commissioners, as part of the broadband map draft order on Thursday's agenda (see 1907110071), instead should have agency bureaus evaluate ways to ensure consumer and provider confidentiality is protected in the crowdsourcing process. NCTA said the related Further NPRM should include questions about whether there needs to be a broadband-serviceable location database or whether alternative information could achieve the same goal. The cablers also asked for some operational clarity on the mapping item, such as requiring the new filing be done on the same March 1/Sept. 1 schedule as Form 477.