FCC weaves 'Broadband Fabric' to map every connectable spot nationwide
Published Date: 3/5/2025
Rule
Summary
The Wireline Competition Bureau is rolling out the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric, a super accurate map of places that can get broadband internet. This new tool helps make sure companies meet their internet service promises and adjusts support based on real locations. It affects internet providers and could change how funding and deadlines work to get more people connected faster.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
New map used to verify deployment
The FCC adopted the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric as the official source the Wireline Competition Bureau will rely on to verify compliance with high-cost program deployment obligations. Internet service providers will be checked against this Fabric when the Bureau confirms whether deployment commitments have been met.
Map will change location-based obligations
The Bureau will use the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric to adjust location obligations for certain high-cost support mechanisms. That means which specific locations are treated as serviceable for purposes of those support programs can be changed based on the Fabric.
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