Guess I can weigh in. Your billing system is simple enough, and should be the primary source for your Broadband Subscriber data, as it should already have the data and the 11k census tracts is not hard to process on based on that data. I note that we at TowerCoverage are working on a automated way to upload and get that data, but it won’t be out this round, but manually we should be able to do it.
The second part is the hard one, this is the Broadband Deployment Data, this is where do you cover. This means you have to have accurate RF maps, not just circles around your towers, and then that needs to be processed on the 11+ Million Census Blocks in the US. Again, TowerCoverage does this, but in the current version it’s a off-line processing job and costs extra each time. Dennis Burgess, CTO, Link Technologies, Inc. den...@linktechs.net<mailto:den...@linktechs.net> – 314-735-0270 – www.linktechs.net<http://www.linktechs.net> From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 6:52 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 477 tract/block info Your billing system doesn't know where all of your towers are, what they are, etc.? It doesn't have customer qualification capabilities? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/googleicon.png]<https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png]<https://twitter.com/ICSIL> ________________________________ From: "Sean Heskett" <af...@zirkel.us<mailto:af...@zirkel.us>> To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 12:27:50 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 477 tract/block info Why would you use your billing system to report your coverage area to the FCC? Surely you don't have customers at every possible location that you can provide service to?!?! We use towercoverage.com<http://towercoverage.com> because it reports all the locations that we can provide service to. 2 cents -Sean On Thursday, February 26, 2015, Philip Rankin <wireless...@gmail.com<mailto:wireless...@gmail.com>> wrote: The hardest part for the Fixed Broadband Deployment portion of the filing is understanding what the FCC wants and then manipulating the data to get it into the format the Commission requires after you find where to find the Census information. (The Census information by state is all on http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/census-blocks-state) You just have to massage it to make it fit. I use Platypus and Tucows has a really nice easy button push to generate the Fixed Broadband Subscription information. The subscription can be done manually if you can find the census maps. On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Glen Waldrop <gwl...@cngwireless.net<mailto:gwl...@cngwireless.net>> wrote: http://data.fcc.gov/api/block/find?latitude=32.515986&longitude=87.834804&showall=true Still get an error, xml error rather than 404 this time. Why can't I figure this crap out? Epically frustrating. ----- Original Message ----- From: Josh Luthman To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 477 tract/block info Long and lat should be decimal for one Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Feb 26, 2015 11:12 AM, "Glen Waldrop" <gwl...@cngwireless.net<mailto:gwl...@cngwireless.net>> wrote: What am I doing wrong? http://data.fcc.gov/api/block/2010/find?latitude=32%C2%B030%2757.55%22N&longitude=87%C2%B050%275.30%22W&showall=true ----- Original Message ----- From: Josh Luthman To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 11:05 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 477 tract/block info Use the FCC API. You send coordinates and get tracts. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340<tel:937-552-2340> Direct: 937-552-2343<tel:937-552-2343> 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Feb 26, 2015 11:03 AM, "Glen Waldrop" <gwl...@cngwireless.net<mailto:gwl...@cngwireless.net>> wrote: I've been spinning my wheels for days now, 477 help line is typical government/Microsoft answer, technically correct, practically useless. How do I get the block/tract info? I've got maps, I've got programs, been through the 477 paperwork of the past, none of the numbers I get add up to 15 digits. Getting a little irritated at this point. Thanks guys. -- Philip J. Rankin Wireless Telecommunications Services PO Box 24 Pittsburg, KS 66762
