All of the wireline technologies are reported by blocks served, just like WISP’s are now required to report for Form 477. If you look at the service area you are questioning, look at the border areas for the blocks. Most blocks boundaries are roads and other logical lines like municipal boundaries. It is quite possible there is a road where there is service along the inner boundary of a block that now includes that whole block as served. They did not have to serve the whole block to deem that area covered.
Some carriers reported more accurately than others, some states did a better job at verifying data against some other sources than others. If your fiber is not on the map, did you ever report it to your state broadband mapping agency for the 5 years they ran that program? Since I ran the Illinois data collecting program I still have access to all the carrier data we gathered for the program, I do not see any for Veloxinet in any of my files, did it get reported under another company name?. If there was nothing reported it will not show up on this map and that data gathering program has now been closed as the grant funding expired. At some point this map will get updated with carrier reported FCC 477 coverage data (you are reporting your service area by block correct?). Given that three rounds of data have been collected, and only the first reported round (that had a lot of problems and little Quality control) of data was released in the last month, the FCC is not staffed to handle this data and release it to the public like the state broadband mapping programs were. If you would like to know the exact methodology that Illinois employed in the data collection process, you can review the methodology documents here. There are notes about changes to the mapping data by carrier from round to round, http://www.broadbandillinois.org/Methodology.html Thank You, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com www.Broadband-Mapping.com From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason McKemie Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 5:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Florida WISPS These maps seem pretty inaccurate in my area. Specifically the DSL and fiber coverage. It doesn't even show my fiber network, but lists one where one does not exist. Also, it shows DSL reaching far beyond where it is offered. On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Brian Webster <[email protected]> wrote: www.broadbandmap.gov At the top of the map you can turn different technologies on and off. The underlying map is not the greatest for visual references once zoomed in but it should save you a lot of work. http://broadbandnow.com/Florida analysis of the state https://www.fcc.gov/maps/connect-compete-home-broadband-coverage-map this map from the FCC is a little more useable but these are only the carrier who participate in the connect to compete program. http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/fcc.connect2compete/page.html#10/28.5417/-81.8303 full screen version of the map above http://wireless-isp.info/FL.html A listing of WISP's in Florida, not real accurate Thank You, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com www.Broadband-Mapping.com -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 8:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Florida WISPS The issue is we found the WISP map and where all the coverage is. The areas we are looking at do not have coverage or anyone nearby really. However I'm pretty sure they have DSL there. So its a bit of a scouting party looking for somewhere to start up where things are needed to provide a service to people or improve service in an area where DSL is really bad. We also don't want to step on anyone's toes and respect others territory. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Treat" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 6:48:48 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Florida WISPS Sign me up. What I'd give for some sustainable green field areas...... ___________________________ Mangled by my iPhone. ___________________________ Tyler Treat Corn Belt Technologies, Inc. [email protected] ___________________________ > On Nov 25, 2015, at 5:04 PM, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Any Florida WISPS out there? Around the Naples area? Just curious because > we have been looking for a startup area but it looks pretty covered by > Cable/DSL. But so much of it is spread out and treed I imagine its a > difficult gig to get started down there. Any success stories? What sort of > hardware are you using etc?
