[Mostly minor] Correction to Unserved locations and allocation estimates

I want to send this over email so everyone sees it, and can go back to the spreadsheet if you want to see updated numbers. Overall this correction brings down the number of Unserved locations from the 8.6 million I had before to 8.3 million Unserved locations, which matches the top-level number the FCC put out. In my view it is not a material change in the story of these new maps, or the problem in Michigan, though I note the biggest changes below.

The FCC published “LBR Wireless” files for 41 states. As I rushed to download the data, I didn’t know what that meant as they hadn’t ever published them before, so I skipped them.

I now know that to mean “Licensed by Rule” wireless. An example is General Authorized Access (GAA) spectrum that can be used in the CBRS band.

In general the differences are small, as it only impacts locations where the LBR coverage filing moves a location from Unserved to Underserved or Served. Put another way, if there’s any other Underserved or Served offering from an ISP, it doesn’t matter what the LBR offerings are. But there are a few states where it made a bigger difference. In Missouri, more than 60,000 locations become Underserved or Served. In Illinois, over 40,000 locations are no longer Unserved. Texas and Wisconsin are honorable mentions.

The change in the estimated allocations follow a similar pattern:

Apologies for the error. And thank you to the couple people on the list that noticed the small differences between my numbers and other numbers floating around.