The Broadband Fabric ServiceLandscape Data delivers a comprehensive view of broadband service availability, competition, and federal funding at a granular level. Built on CostQuest’s Location Data, this Dataset includes precise geospatial service availability insights sourced from the FCC’s Broadband Data Collection (BDC) program, the industry-standard Dataset used by governments and organizations.
Broadband coverage & carrier footprints at your fingertips
Each location record includes verified service availability by provider and technology type, competitive landscape insights for assessing broadband market density, and federal funding awards highlighting existing infrastructure investments, deployment trends, and their impact on connectivity.
Coverage & Competition
Provider footprints, service levels, and funding allocations.
Market Insights
Strategic intelligence for business planning and policy decisions.
Data that Drives Action
Used to guide infrastructure investment and regulatory oversight.
Data Included
Expand the box below to see the data fields included. Click on the data category to see its description.
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 ServiceLandscape dataset contains Broadband Serviceable Location data layered with service availability and competition information per location you can use to create a geographically granular and comprehensive broadband map for your analysis. This collective data displayed in your broadband map allows you to uncover served, underserved, and unserved locations, competition by technology type, residential and non-residential demand, and federally funded areas.
Planning
Build Network Designs
With the BroadbandFabric ServiceLandscape, you can import the data into your GIS or network planning software to design your networks to the exact customer drop location. The coordinates in the location data, ensure your network designs are mapped to the ground truth, the exact placement of a structure. Versus designing your network with geocoded address data which has a strong likelihood of containing geographic distance errors due to the geocoding process.
Planning
Identify Grant Opportunities Faster
The data collectively in the BroadbandFabric ServiceLandscape dataset allows you to assess Broadband Serviceable Locations that are unserved, underserved, and served, as well as which locations are already federally funded. Making it easy to narrow down the unserved and underserved locations to bid on for grant funding opportunities.
Planning
Deployment Validation
The BroadbandFabric ServiceLandscape dataset provides teams with coordinates of all Broadband Serviceable locations within a defined geographic area. Overlay your awarded funding areas with this rooftop-level location data, that helps enable precise location buildout 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.
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