Kudos- that was quick work! A clarifying question related to the technologies used to determine coverage. I assume you are following NTIA's lead, but if you could clarify how various technologies are handled with your analysis (particularly wireless), I'd appreciate it.
Interesting info. Thanks for the detailed analysis you do. I know in Georgia, where I live, the Governor has used a lot of the funds available from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) for broadband projects, both from the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRS) portion of ARPA, and the Capital Projects Fund (CPF). For example, in February of last year Georgia announced $408 Million in grants from ARPA (SLFRS). With matching funds from the grantees that number goes up to $738 Million. It's estimated those funds will cover over 132,000 locations, and those locations may not have been flagged in the first Fabric as committed Federal funds, in which case they would have shown up as Unserved in the initial map. In February of this year Georgia announced another $234 Million in grants from the CPF, which will add up to $455 million total with matching funds from grantees. Those funds will cover another 76,000 locations. So, that's over a billion dollars that will be put to work to deploy broadband to over 200,000 unserved locations, before any BEAD awards are made.
Kudos- that was quick work! A clarifying question related to the technologies used to determine coverage. I assume you are following NTIA's lead, but if you could clarify how various technologies are handled with your analysis (particularly wireless), I'd appreciate it.
Yup, trying to follow the NTIA BEAD NOFO allocation rules as closely as possible.
So copper, cable, fiber count obviously. Licensed fixed wireless counts. Unlicensed fixed wireless does not count.
FCC added a new category "Licensed by rule" wireless. I haven't dug into whether that would count and for now they aren't included.
Interesting info. Thanks for the detailed analysis you do. I know in Georgia, where I live, the Governor has used a lot of the funds available from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) for broadband projects, both from the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRS) portion of ARPA, and the Capital Projects Fund (CPF). For example, in February of last year Georgia announced $408 Million in grants from ARPA (SLFRS). With matching funds from the grantees that number goes up to $738 Million. It's estimated those funds will cover over 132,000 locations, and those locations may not have been flagged in the first Fabric as committed Federal funds, in which case they would have shown up as Unserved in the initial map. In February of this year Georgia announced another $234 Million in grants from the CPF, which will add up to $455 million total with matching funds from grantees. Those funds will cover another 76,000 locations. So, that's over a billion dollars that will be put to work to deploy broadband to over 200,000 unserved locations, before any BEAD awards are made.