Crowdsourcing Presents Challenges to Broadband Mapping, NCTA Says
The proposal on incorporating crowdsourced information into the new broadband mapping process on the agency's Thursday agenda (see 1907110071) raises some tricky issues, such as how much weight to give online speed tests, given the deficiencies of many of them,…
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NCTA blogged Wednesday. There also must be care not to conflate deployment data that's at issue with the draft order with subscription and performance data, it said. There could be value to an accurate database of every serviceable home and business, but there are questions about how workable and expensive the broadband serviceable location fabric would be, NCTA said. It said expanding the scope of the data the FCC collects would delay production of improved broadband deployment data, which could slow deployment to unserved areas.