the U.S. has spent more than $400 million on mapping broadband, yet our policymakers still don't have a truly genuine understanding of where broadband is or isn't available
Community organizations, small businesses, everyday Americans, and state and local governments all flagged inaccuracies in the FCC broadband map. If $42 billion of internet infrastructure investment are going to be made from the map, it needs to be better: https://eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/fcc-broadband-map-has-problems…
and everything in the process favors the entrenched incumbent monopolies who routinely lie about their broadband footprints in the hopes of pretending that the U.S. broadband market isn't painfully patchy and uncompetitive
