The Broadband Fabric NetworkPlan Data Suite provides in-depth cost modeling, infrastructure planning, market, and deployment insights, equipping stakeholders with the Data necessary to develop strategic and profitable broadband expansion projects.
Built on CostQuest’s Location and ServiceLandscape Datasets, this suite delivers geospatial broadband service availability at the address level, investment modeling that accounts for deployment costs, engineering variables, and economic feasibility, and demographic and demand indicators that help determine broadband adoption and expansion potential.
Precision & continuity from planning to deployment
Trusted by broadband providers, policymakers, and planners, the NetworkPlan Data streamlines infrastructure rollouts and optimizes funding investments that yield a positive ROI. Reducing variability from the planning phase to network deployment
Financial & Market Modeling
Cost investments, NPV analysis, and deployment ROI.
Coverage, Competition, Market Insights
Provider footprints, service levels, demographics, and funding awards.
Data That Shapes Policy
Data trusted and used by the FCC, NTIA, and infrastructure planners.
Data Included
Expand the box below to see the data fields included. Click on the data category to see its description. Data is available for every U.S. state, territory, and county.
Includes all Active Locations and federally defined Broadband Serviceable Locations, their coordinates, addresses, unique Location_ID, building types (residential, business, CAI, etc.) units, land use, Hex 3 identifier, etc.
Active Locations represents ALL locations that have been determined to be broadband serviceable – a structure where broadband service can be installed.
Broadband Serviceable Locations (BSLs) represent locations that fall under the federal definition of a Broadband Serviceable Location.
Service Availability data of all Broadband Serviceable Locations. Includes technology (Fiber, Licensed and Unlicensed Fixed Wireless, Telco, Satellite, Cable), carriers, speed, a label if a location is considered unserved, underserved, and served, etc. Includes both BDC and NTIA Service Status.
BDC Service Availability Status represents the highest speed tier available per Fabric location from the FCC Broadband Data Collection (BDC) program:
1, Served – broadband speed greater than 100 Mbps download x 20 Mbps upload
2, Underserved – broadband greater than 25 Mbps download x 3 Mbps upload but below Served
NTIA Service Availability Status represents locations that are served, underserved, and unserved based on the NTIA’s established service level requirements (excluding Unlicensed Fixed Wireless and Satellite, etc.):
1, Served – Access to a low-latency Fiber, Cable, Copper, or Licensed Terrestrial Fixed Wireless offering of speeds greater than or equal to 100 Megabits per second (Mbps) download and 20 Mbps upload, or 100/20 Mbps (download/upload).
2, Underserved – Access to more than 25/3 Mbps, but without access to broadband service offering speeds of 100/20 Mbps (download/upload).
3, Unserved – Without any Terrestrial Broadband Service or with internet service offering speeds below 25/3 Mbps (download/upload) or latency less than or equal to 100 milliseconds.
Sourced from the FCC Broadband Funding Map, this data includes a label of which locations have been awarded federal funding – what program and awardees. Programs include: RDOF, CAF, etc. and will include BEAD.
A flag indicating whether a location that falls under an existing federal funding program is covered or uncovered with funding, and with residential or business services using licensed fixed wireless or wired technologies (i.e., Copper, Cable, Fiber to the Premises, Licensed Fixed Wireless, or Licensed-by-Rule Fixed Wireless) with speeds of at least 25/3 Mbps or 100/20 Mbps.
U indicates opportunity = A location does not have access to speed tier.
Fiber Cost Model – Greenfield and Brownfield FTTP network builds, includes:
Access Investment – Provides investment to acquire, engineer and install a fiber access network.
Success Based Investment – Captures investment for Optical Network Terminal (ONT) and drop at the Fabric Location. This is the investment associated with connecting a specific customer location to the fiber network. Also referred to as success based investment.
NPV – The Net Present Value of a 20-year cash flow accounting for revenue, operating expense (network specific, non-network specific, customer operations, bad debt, and general administration), capital expenses (income tax and replacement capex), and initial capex with discount rate of 8.5 percent. Fiber network design assumes a carrier agnostic network.
Fixed Wireless Cost Model for Greenfield and Brownfield network builds, includes:
Access Investment – Provides investment to acquire, engineer, and install a new Fixed Wireless broadband network.
Success Based Investment – Captures investment for Fixed Wireless materials and labor at the customer premises: router, antenna, cabling, etc. This is the investment associated with connecting a customer location to the fixed wireless network. Also referred to as success based investment.
NPV – The Net Present Value of a 20-year cash flow accounting for revenue, operating expense (network specific, non-network specific, customer operations, bad debt, and general administration), capital expenses (income tax and replacement capex), and initial capex with discount rate of 8.5%.
This data value provides the Wireless 5G cost profile for the area the Fabric Location resides in. Indicates whether a location falls in an area that is in the highest to lowest cost range of the country.
As examples: a value of 10 means the location falls in an area that is in the lowest 10% of the country; a value of 75 means the location falls in an area where the cost is in the highest 75% range of the country.
Residential and Non-Residential Fiber Take Rate (Market Share):
An estimate of the projected market share that a new fiber entrant will experience with residential and non-residential customers in the area. The rate takes into account the level and type of competition.
A complexity score for each location for greenfield and brownfield fiber network builds. The scoring value incorporates linear density, terrain, cost differentials, large area density, distance to a central core, and other factors.
Includes residential and business demographics such Avg HH Size, Median income, Education, Age, Linear density of Fabric location per road and square mile, tower count, etc.
Includes the number of Fabric locations identified as NonK12Schools, Medical, Library, Government, Non Government, Public Safety, K12Schools, EB (College Campuses, Military bases and Prisons, etc.).
The custom Fiber Business Case data provides users with comprehensive financial data that provides accurate cost estimates and revenue projections for broadband professionals to precisely understand the full market opportunity for deploying a typical Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) network buildout to a defined service area, the success-based capital needed, Net Present Value, identify where funding is most required, and the cost to maintain the network business over time.
This data provides you with a full Fiber Business Case for a custom geographic area.
Users indicate their defined service area, and we will deliver custom Business Case data for that area.
The full Business Case includes the cost to maintain the business over time, plus an estimate of demand and revenue, and success-based capital.
The custom Business Case also provides users with the Net Present Value look of the potential service area. With this information, users can understand the full market opportunity for deploying a typical Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) network buildout to a defined service area and identify where funding is most required.
Click the button below to learn more about CostQuest’s custom Fiber Business Case Model data.
Custom Fiber Network Design from our CQA Autodesign model
This data includes fiber routes to Broadband Serviceable Locations (demand) and logical placements of equipment along the way.
We also will provide you with an efficient clustering and a full GIS design output ready for approval from a Professional Engineer.
What can I use Broadband Fabric NetworkPlan data for?
Planning
Develop Network Plans
BroadbandFabric NetworkPlan data contains Broadband Serviceable Location data layered with insightful information per location you can import into your GIS to create a geographically granular and comprehensive broadband map. This collective data displayed in your broadband map allows you to assess a location’s broadband service availability, competitive landscape, residential and non-residential demand, federally funded areas, demographics, and identify nearby Community Anchor Institutions. Each location is layered with crucial information per location to help you make the most informed decisions from your broadband data.
With the BroadbandFabric NetworkPlan data, you receive an estimated cost to serve each location with Fiber and Fixed Wireless technologies. Unlock data to understand broadband service availability, cost investment per location, federally funded areas, competitive landscape, residential and non-residential demand, demographics, and the location of nearby Community Anchor Institutions. NetworkPlan data can help you develop confident cost estimates, so you can be successful when competing for funding opportunities (ex. IIJA’s BEAD funding program) and mitigate risks in the process.
Planning
Build Fiber Business Case & FTTP Design
With the BroadbandFabric NetworkPlan, you have the option to add on Business Case and Fiber Network Design data to view fiber routes and analyze the market opportunity for a typical Fiber to the Premise (FTTP) buildout. Indicate a defined service area, and we will deliver NetworkPlan Fiber data along with data from CostQuest’s Fiber Business Case, which includes the cost to maintain the business over time, plus an estimate of demand, revenue, and the Net Present Value of the full network business. The final output provides a clear picture of what subsidies are needed, eligible funding areas, and infrastructure routes. Fixed Wireless network models can also be modeled for a Full Business Case.
Planning
Identify Grant Opportunities Faster
The data collectively in the BroadbandFabric NetworkPlan dataset allows you to assess Broadband Serviceable Locations, broadband service availability, cost, infrastructure, and federally funded areas all in one view. This dataset, along with a Full Business case and Network Design, can accelerate the identification and assessment of opportunities to pursue.
Planning
Deployment Validation
The BroadbandFabric NetworkPlan dataset provides teams with coordinates of all Broadband Serviceable locations within a defined geographic area. Overlaying the awarded funding areas with this rooftop-level location data enables precise buildout plan tracking, field verification, or remote visual verification using satellite and street side imagery.
Planning
Reporting Obligations – USAC HUBB
Use this data for your semi-annual and grant program regulatory filings for the USAC’s HUBB. This data is formatted to meet USAC’s filing requirements, so you can easily integrate it with your existing data to create filings.
From discovery to deployment in 4 simple steps
Step 1
Select your geography(s) of interest on TrueVerra or Via Sales
Search by county to select the geography you need for your strategic planning and operational needs via TrueVerra Data Selection Map: https://trueverra.io/data-selection-map. Or contact our sales team for bulk geography or nationwide orders.
Step 2
Select a Data Suite
Choose from Location, ServiceLandscape, and NetworkPlan—all the data you need is right within your orbit.
Step 3
Download and Integrate
Datasets are delivered in CSV or GeoPackage (.gpkg) formats, ready to plug into your GIS platforms, SQL, broadband models, or internal systems. If you purchase the data through our TrueVerra platform, the data is delivered instantly upon purchase. If the data is purchased through our sales team, your data will be delivered to you through them.
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Analyze. Plan. Deploy
Upon downloading the data, you can now uncover location-level insights for your areas of interest to support strategic broadband planning, financial modeling, network design, internal data processing, compliance tracking, and beyond.
Trusted by Federal Agencies, relied on by industry
CostQuest is the data engine behind the FCC’s National Broadband Map and the default source for BDC, BEAD, and infrastructure grants. With a legacy of public trust and technical rigor, our data fuels the nation’s most critical broadband strategies. Through responsive support and proven expertise, we work closely with carriers, federal agencies, state broadband offices, and consultants to support data integration, application, and success from day one.
