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posted by martyb on Saturday January 26 2019, @09:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the Of-course-the-Fixed-Broadband-Deployment-Map-replaces-the-broken-one dept.

https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/blog/2018/12/07/decommissioning-national-broadband-map-and-its-apis

Having become old, both in infrastructure and content, the FCC's National Broadband Map has been decommissioned. This happened at the end of December, after an announcement in early December. The reasons include an aging mapping platform and state broadband provider data that hasn't been updated since mid 2014.

In its place, the FCC is encouraging use of new broadband map resources at https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/#/. The linked blog post also links to pirate radio enforcement data, visualizations of broadband and health(?) data, LTE coverage data, mobile deployment data, and the 20th Mobile Wireless Report. However, you may want to take these maps with 6,000 miles of salt! (Man Drives 6,000 Miles to Prove Uncle Sam's Cellphone Coverage Maps are Wrong)


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @08:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @08:58AM (#792581)

    I was decidedly against moving from DSL to NBN. I had decent 18M speed, unlimited bandwidth, and it was all good. I switched to NBN only because we were forced to do so.

    It's not that bad. Speed is good. I get 40Mbps on average throughout the day. Exetel have been good. Signup was strange. Price is good at $60 a month. So far I am not regretting the move to an NBN connection.