OEA Reports Found Growing Web, Mobile Connections -- In 2017
About 73 percent of occupied U.S. census blocks had three or more ISPs providing 25/3 Mbps broadband service by the end of 2017, said an FCC Office of Economics and Analytics report on internet service in Thursday's Daily Digest. It…
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also released a similar voice report, both based on Form 477 data. The internet report said 23 percent of occupied census blocks had two or more providers of 25/3 service, 5 percent have three or more providers of 100/10 Mbps broadband. It said total internet connections grew about 4 percent in 2017 to 421 million, with mobile connections up 4.5 percent to 313 million, while fixed connections rose about 2 percent to 108 million. Form 477 data has been criticized for overstating broadband connectivity, and the report said since a provider reporting offering service to a particular census block might not offer service to all locations there, such data doesn't necessarily reflect choices available to a particular household. The voice report said over three years ending in 2017, interconnected VoIP subscriptions grew from 54.3 million to 66.6 million, mobile voice subscriptions 322.6 million to 340.1 million, and retail switched access lines 72.8 million to 49.7 million.