BroadbandFabric: Import-ready Datasets for Serviceable Locations

What is the BroadbandFabric?

The BroadbandFabric is the first dataset of locations eligible to receive broadband service (Broadband Serviceable Locations), with data available in all 50 states. This location data is built for the broadband industry, with more than 860M data points analyzed with the end goal of selecting only the primary home and business structures in the U.S. that are serviceable for broadband. With broadband-focused location data as the foundation, additional data analyses can easily be layered on top.

860M+

Data points analyzed

550M+

Addresses cross referenced

115M

Broadband Serviceable Locations identified

BroadbandFabric – Network Planning

Inform network planning & design

Geographically granular location data is the foundation for precise network assessments, plans, and designs. The BroadbandFabric has geographically granular location data with latitude and longitudinal coordinates of every home and business structure in the U.S. eligible to receive broadband service. Teams can use this location data’s geographic accuracy to build granular broadband maps and make successful decisions when assessing opportunities, submitting funding bids, planning, and designing network infrastructure projects.

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Reporting Obligations

Accelerate HUBB filings

The High Cost Universal Broadband portal (HUBB) requires High Cost Fund participants to file data annually to demonstrate new locations where service has been made available. Critical to these filings are accurate latitude and longitude coordinates for every location. CostQuest has rooftop lat/lon coordinates for serviceable structures and addresses to help you accelerate your filings.

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RDOF Eligible Locations

Find actual locations within RDOF-eligible areas

Eligible location counts and the corresponding reserve prices are available for the RDOF auction, but it’s up to bidders to find the actual customer locations in eligible areas. CostQuest’s BroadbandFabric Location Data identifies the lat/lon coordinates and likely address for serviceable structures in and around RDOF-eligible areas so you can bid with confidence.

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BroadbandFabric data layers

Accelerate network planning and financial feasibility modeling.

Availability Data

Estimate the served and unserved at a location level.

Cost Data

Fiber or Fixed Wireless cost to serve a location.

Location Data

Easily locate demand in your service area.

How we got here

Building a better broadband map

The Broadband Mapping Initiative

While national estimates of the broadband gap have been available through the FCC broadband reporting, the information reported hasn’t been at the granular level needed to identify where broadband is lacking. In 2019, CostQuest managed a pilot in Missouri and Virginia to demonstrate the feasibility of identifying the precise number and location of every structure in the states that are available for broadband access. With the combination of industry expertise and help from trade associations and select providers, CostQuest created the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric, to make it possible to precisely map where broadband is available and where it isn’t. It was discovered in the Pilot that as many as 38% of additional rural locations are unserved in census blocks that would have been filed as served in today’s FCC Form 477 reporting approach. Therefore exemplifying the need for granular data in broadband maps, a need the BroadbandFabric can now fill.