[1st-mile-nm] US Broadband Map (Microsoft Data)

[Richard Lowenberg]

THIS IS A MAP OF AMERICA’S BROADBAND PROBLEM
A county-by-county look at the broadband gap

By Russell Brandom and William Joel, The Verge,  May 10, 2021

https://www.theverge.com/22418074/broadband-gap-america-map-county-microsoft-data

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This map shows where the broadband problem is worst — the areas where 
the difficulty of reliably connecting to the internet has gotten bad 
enough to become a drag on everyday life. Specifically, the colored-in 
areas show US counties where less than 15 percent of households are 
using the internet at broadband speed, defined as 25Mbps download speed.

Instead of the FCC’s data, we drew on an anonymized dataset collected by 
Microsoft through its cloud services network, published in increments by 
the company over the past 18 months. If the FCC monitors the connections 
that providers say they’re offering, this measures what they’re actually 
getting. You can roll over specific counties to see the exact percentage 
of households connected at broadband speed, and the data is publicly 
available on GitHub if you want to check our work or drill down further.

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Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director
1st-Mile Institute     505-603-5200
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rl at 1st-mile.org     www.1st-mile.org
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