CCA and Nex-Tech Raise Broadband Data Collection Concerns
Competitive Carriers Association and Nex-Tech Wireless representatives met with an aide to FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez to discuss potential gaps in the agency’s broadband data collection, a filing posted Friday in docket 19-195 said. Nex-Tech discussed issues it saw as…
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it collected data for the broadband maps. “In Kansas, the outdoor stationary 5G 7/1 Mbps mobile broadband layer of the most recent FCC national broadband map shows 63% of the state to be currently covered, whereas in-vehicle mobile coverage at 7/1 Mbps shows only 30% … covered,” the filing said: Even if the reported coverage were accurate, “this methodology would leave 70% of Kansas below even the 7/1 Mbps 5G bar for those using mobile phones while mobile.” The representatives warned about the implications “of overstated maps and a flawed challenge process” for “the success of the 5G Fund.”