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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A Vermont state employee drove 6,000 miles in six weeks to prove that the cellular coverage maps from the US government suck – and was wildly successful.
In fact not only did he prove conclusively that reports delivered to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by mobile operators aren't worth the paper they're printed on but also swung a spotlight on just how bad bureaucracy can get when it comes to Washington DC.
Corey Chase, a telecommunications infrastructure specialist who works for the Vermont Department of Public Service (PSD), undertook the monster road trip with some specialized equipment: six phones, each connected to a different mobile nework, and a custom piece of software, G-NetTrack, that carried out constant measurements of download speeds.
(Score: 3, Informative) by corey on Saturday January 26 2019, @10:38AM (2 children)
As above.
In other not-so-relevant news to half the users here, you can see a rollout map [nbnco.com.au] of Australia's NBN.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MostCynical on Saturday January 26 2019, @11:19AM (1 child)
To be fair, those purple spots represent a large proportion of the Australian population (well, the houses, anyway)
I stiil half expect 5G to beat nbn..although someone who lives a few blocks from me on a whirlpool* forum reported he is getting 90MBps on nbn hfc.. While I'm still on 2.8MBps ADSL..
*whirlpool.net.au
(And also note "mobile coverage" for an Australian carrier doesn't mean "while you're moving about", it means "your mobile will work (mostly) while you're inside one of the spots on our map)
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @08:58AM
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.