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Using a project-building algorithm to estimate areas that are likely to get fiber BEAD applications
For months, myself and others have made projections about how far the broadband money could go if it were allocated relatively efficiently across all…
Feb 21
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January 2024
The ARPAphant in the room
Cartesian and ACA Connects recently released the 4th version of their estimate for how far the BEAD money will go, finding that we can reach “at least…
Jan 29
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December 2023
Top 10 novel and thoughtful concepts in the newly-approved Louisiana BEAD plan
Last week, Louisiana became the first state to have their BEAD plan fully approved by the NTIA. NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson heaped praise on the…
Dec 18, 2023
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November 2023
We need better data to truly unlock technological neutrality in broadband deployment
Every year by law the FCC has to “determine whether advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely…
Nov 27, 2023
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New FCC Broadband Map, version 3
A few days ago the FCC released a new version of the National Broadband Map with data as of June 2023. As the FCC says in the blog releasing it, the…
Nov 20, 2023
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October 2023
Final Enhanced ACAM numbers are in: 683,000 locations off the board for BEAD
Small rural ISPs had until the end of September to tell the FCC whether they wanted to participate in the Enhanced ACAM program. As a reminder, the…
Oct 17, 2023
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September 2023
A random sample of the Digital Divide
Apropos of nothing, I thought it’d be interesting to take a tour of the remaining United States Digital Divide. These locations are a random sample of…
Sep 6, 2023
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How far could the money go? Update with new Enhanced ACAM numbers
I’m asked all the time: “How far will the money go?” and “Which states can’t reach all their Unserved?” My last update to this model was at the end of…
Sep 5, 2023
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August 2023
Update: The FCC's Enhanced ACAM offer could take up to 1.3 million locations off the board for BEAD
Last week the FCC published its first “illustrative run” of what the offers might be to ISPs who elect extended subsidies in exchange for agreeing to…
Aug 17, 2023
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July 2023
The new FCC order takes 583,000 locations off the board for BEAD
Yesterday the FCC released a Report and Order creating the Enhanced Alternative Connect America Cost Model (EA-CAM, I guess) program which extends…
Jul 26, 2023
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Cleaning the map so that we can spend broadband funds efficiently
Recently I wrote about how there are too many locations in the National Broadband Map when you compare it with the recently-released Census count of…
Jul 20, 2023
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Cleaning the map so that we can spend broadband funds efficiently
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How can we make the broadband funding go as far as possible?
With the allocation of broadband funding behind us, we can turn [again] to how far the funding might go in connecting the unconnected. Instead of making…
Jul 10, 2023
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