USTelecom Touts US Broadband Investment, New Broadband Mapping Initiative
U.S. broadband providers invested about $80 billion in network infrastructure in 2018, according to research and analysis published by USTelecom Wednesday. Since 1996, the industry, including wireline, cable and wireless providers, made capital investments totaling more than $1.7 trillion, it…
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said. The trade group also said Wednesday that USTelecom, ITTA and Wireless ISP Association completed the initial phase of their broadband mapping initiative showing "serious discrepancies" with a current data collection approach "that relies on existing census block level data" to determine which areas of the country are unserved with high-speed broadband. The FCC is to address broadband mapping and a proposed $20.4 million Rural Digital Opportunity Fund at Thursday's meeting.