Broadband Mapping
For more than three years, BroadbandCensus.com has been the leader in the effort to ensure that broadband data is open, public and transparent to all.
BroadbandCensus.com has proved a public and transparent broadband map can be built. We’ve created just such a broadband map in Richland County, South Carolina. Working with Benedict College, an historically black college in Columbia, S.C., and the South Carolina Broadband Coalition, BroadbandCensus.com built a beta map of the 8,078 Census blocks within the county.
For each Census block, our team identified the presence or absence of broadband, the type of technology through which broadband was provided, the speeds at which broadband speeds are advertised, and the names of the carriers that offer the service.
We did this in a matter of weeks - and can do the same for you.
The results are visible for all to see at BroadbandCensusMaps.com.
BroadbandCensus.com provides the information necessary for states to meet grant obligations under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It does this by:
- identifying carriers;
- internet technologies;
- advertised speeds;
- prices; and
- the presence or absence of broadband within each Census block.
Using BroadbandCensus.com, a state can fully map the broadband footprint of its carriers within 42 days for a fraction of the budget allocated by the Recovery Act.
And the cost is less than what a state might otherwise expect for a product of this caliber.
BroadbandCensus.com builds its broadband maps by blending multiple data sets of publicly-available information.
These sources include:
- Wireline footprints;
- Radio-frequency engineering maps;
- Publicly-available carrier data;
- Survey-grade research; and
- Crowdsourced data.
The data underlying BroadbandCensus.com is verifiable, publicly available, and granular to the Census block level.
BroadbandCensus.com can also go beyond the Census block level and offer consumer broadband data at the rooftop level. This survey-grade information is no more than six months old.
Unlike compiled consumer data built for direct marketing, the BroadbandCensus.com suite of services makes use of active household demographic data.
Working in collaboration with Brian Webster Consulting, Broadband Census Data offers states and other parties the solution they need to meet their broadband mapping requirements. States need to meet these in order to obtain ARRA grants.
For your broadband mapping solution, please contact maps@broadbandcensus.com. Or call Robert Sepe, Mapping Services, Broadband Census Data, at 919-467-5392.