Is FCC 477 per-block, or per-tract?

waldoj / albemarle-broadband

Work and ideas about my work on the Albemarle Broadband Authority.

Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal

5 stars 2 forks source link

Is FCC 477 per-block, or per-tract? #13

Closed waldoj closed 5 years ago

waldoj commented 5 years ago

According to the FCC's data-download page, it's tract-level, but the December 2011 Federal Register filing about the Connect America Fund seems to indicate that it's block-level. Some press coverage says it's block-level. Is it possible that the data is collected at a block level but distributed at a tract level?

waldoj commented 5 years ago

All of the data is per-block only for the number of providers (how much competition there is), but it's per-tract for actual connection speed data. The CSV data provided is likewise tract-level.

So looks like it's tract-level, however it's collected.