FCC's Broadband Map Reveals Millions Without High-Speed Internet

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has updated its broadband map with newer data from internet providers, improved validation by FCC staff, and challenges filed over inaccuracies in the map first published in November. The updated map reflects almost 330,000 more locations without broadband and more than 1 million new locations with broadband. The FCC has reviewed challenges to broadband-availability data for more than 4 million addresses and resolved over 75% of them. The FCC has tens of billions of dollars’ worth of reasons to keep at this work: Better connectivity maps will not only help prospective homeowners know what service situations they’re buying into but will also help the government effectively spend the $65 billion in subsidies that 2021’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provided to fill in the nation’s blank broadband spaces.