For some, acquiring granular and accurate broadband data to inform broadband deployment efforts efficiently has been a challenge. Which is why using our core Broadband Serviceable Location data, we created the BroadbandFabric NetworkPlan dataset to provide complete and accurate data for intelligent broadband network planning and design. The BroadbandFabric NetworkPlan dataset is built for broadband deployment projects, complete with coordinates of the latest Broadband Serviceable Locations that universally tie to other critical data such as broadband service availability, funding eligibility, cost to serve, demand, demographics, and MORE. This dataset provides you an array of data (true data fabric) designed for broadband maps to guide effective and intelligent decisions in your broadband deployment projects.
BroadbandFabric NetworkPlan Data Suite
BroadbandFabric NetworkPlan – kickstart your broadband deployment project with the most accurate broadband data possible. The broadband data in the BroadbandFabric NetworkPlan is based on CostQuest’s Broadband Serviceable Location data tied directly to federal broadband initiatives.
Accurate & granular broadband data
Having over 20+ years of experience in the communications industry, we’ve created data that is accurate at the coordinate level, broadband-specific, and works easily with your data. Each BroadbandFabric dataset has the same base of Broadband Serviceable Locations (the geographic coordinates of all structures where a broadband connection can be installed) and can provide the level of precision needed in broadband maps to inform project initiatives efficiently.
Insightful data layers from broadband experts
All Broadband Serviceable Locations in each dataset come with insightful information per location such as Service Availability, Engineering and Construction, Costs and Economics, and Demand and Demographics data to support specific functions in broadband deployment projects.
Your complete guide through the Digital Divide
In broadband deployment projects, it’s key to develop a geographically granular broadband map, especially when looking to understand exactly where the locations needing broadband service are and which areas need it the most. Each BroadbandFabric dataset can be your guide through the Digital Divide, with precise coordinates of Broadband Serviceable Locations and insightful information per location such as service availability data to help you analyze areas of interest efficiently and intelligently.
What can I use BroadbandFabric 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, funding eligibility, 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 map.
Planning
Create Fiber or Fixed Wireless Network Financial Models
With the BroadbandFabric NetworkPlan data, you receive an estimated cost to serve each location with Fiber or Fixed Wireless technology or both. Unlock data to understand broadband service availability, cost investment per location, funding eligibility, 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 eligible funding 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 coordinate-level location data enables precise buildout plan tracking, field verification, or remote visual verification using satellite and street side imagery.
Planning
Reporting Obligations – BDC
Use this data for your semi-annual and grant program regulatory filings for the Broadband Data Collection and USAC’s HUBB. This data is formatted to meet BDC and USAC’s filing requirements, so you can easily integrate it with your existing data to create filings.
Get broadband-specific data
Each Broadband Serviceable Location we identify is a structure location needing broadband service. Our Broadband Serviceable Locations are NOT developed for insurance or real estate, they are built specifically for broadband. This data was developed by broadband experts and data scientists with deep roots in broadband economic network modeling and mapping.
Confirm geographic accuracy
Precise geographic placement for each Broadband Serviceable Location – pinpoints serviceable structures through highly accurate latitude and longitude coordinates, with visual verification used for added confidence.
Easy import & interoperability
All BroadbandFabric data sets come in a .CSV, .KMZ, or .KML file format to import into any major GIS or engineering software. Integrates easily with other data sets by using a unique identifier per location. A PlaceKey is included for universal referencing.
See locations eligible for funding
Review locations that fall within areas covered under federal funding programs, such as CAF, RDOF, ARA, the upcoming IIJA funding, and more to leverage as capital to expand broadband services.
What data is included?
All datasets comes in a .CSV file format for easy import into any major GIS or engineering software. Purchase data either by state or county.
BroadbandFabric NetworkPlan Data Suite
Broadband Serviceable Locations
H3 Locations
PlaceKey
HUBB/BDC Locations
Build Complexity Scoring
Autodesign (Fiber network)
Technology (Service) Availability
FCC Form 477
Competitive Landscape
Funding Eligibility
Fiber Cost to Serve
Fixed Wireless Cost to Serve
Fiber Business Case
Residential Demand
Business Demand
Community Anchor Institutions
Fiber Adoption & Take Rates
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Data you can add-on
Business Case data
This data provides you with a full 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.
The custom Business Case also provides you with the Net Present Value look of the potential service area. With this information you 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.
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 an efficient clustering and a full GIS design output ready for approval from a Professional Engineer.
Broadband data built by broadband experts
Built by broadband experts with over 20+ years of experience in the communications industry, we’ve created data that is broadband-specific, accurate at the coordinate level, and works easily with your data. CostQuest has supplied broadband data to hundreds of customers, helping them achieve critical objectives and tackle challenges in network deployment projects.
CostQuest was awarded the FCC’s Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric (Fabric) contract to solve location accuracy issues and provide the foundational data to support a National Broadband Map. This Broadband Serviceable Location data will be vital to closing the Digital Divide.
Receive data in 3 easy steps
Step 1
Request sample data
Select “Get started today” located at the bottom of this page. Fill out the “Contact Us” form and indicate you would like a sample in the comments field. Then, one of our sales representatives will reach out and set you up with a sample.
Step 2
License the data you need
When you’re ready, license the data for your areas of interest and receive data via a secure portal. Choose a 1, 2 or 3 year license duration, with a minimum order size of a US County.
Step 3
Import-ready data files are delivered securely
We’ll deliver data files via a secure portal, in a supported file format*, and give you a crash course on how to upload and interpret the data in your visualization software of choice. All orders come with access to our customer success team, to ensure you have what you need to be successful with the data.
*We can export data into the following formats: .CSV, .KML, .KMZ. There is no additional charge for any format.
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