SHLB Asks NTIA to Collect Data on Anchor Institution Broadband
NTIA should collect and release data on broadband availability to anchor institutions such as libraries and schools, commented the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition. Rather than determining only if a community is served, "focus on the quality (speed, latency,…
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jitter, etc.)" of the connection, with "a sliding scale that evaluates whether the quality of the connection is sufficient to accomplish the user’s goal," SHLB said in a filing it released Tuesday. "Anchor institutions typically need between 100 Mbps and multi-gigabit connections." Others suggested ways NTIA could improve broadband data quality and accuracy, after the agency sought comment on how to spend $7.5 million to improve related mapping (see 1807170052).