by Bill Callahan | Jul 18, 2018 | Digital Inclusion News, Measuring Inclusion, Policy Positions
Ten organizations including NDIA have called on the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to take the lead in creating a new and improved system for gathering national data on broadband access and adoption,...
by Angela Siefer | Jun 7, 2018 | Digital Inclusion News, Measuring Inclusion
Using data from the 2016 American Community Survey (ACS), released in September 2017 by the U.S. Census Bureau, NDIA ranked all 186 U.S. cities with more than 50,000 households by the total percentage of each city’s households lacking fixed broadband internet...
by Angela Siefer | Mar 26, 2018 | Digital Inclusion News, Measuring Inclusion, Policy Positions
Recent FCC “Broadband Deployment Report” states 95% of Americans have access to 25/3 broadband. This number is influenced by the inclusion of satellite service as broadband. THIS IS A PROBLEM. The FCC’s broadband data has other flaws but their data...
by Bill Callahan | Mar 10, 2018 | Digital Inclusion News, Measuring Inclusion
It’s been a busy year. One year ago today, NDIA and Connect Your Community released AT&T’s Digital Redlining of Cleveland, our first research report on that company’s discrimination against lower-income urban neighborhoods in the deployment of its standard...
by Bill Callahan | Oct 19, 2017 | events, Measuring Inclusion
Interested in learning about the FCC’s public data on local broadband access and adoption, and how to make it useful for your community? On November 15, NDIA’s Bill Callahan will hold a two-hour hands-on webinar for affiliates on “Using FCC Form 477...
by Bill Callahan | Oct 7, 2017 | Measuring Inclusion, Policy Positions
NDIA recently submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission suggesting several ways to make the agency’s public data on broadband deployment and adoption more useful to local digital inclusion efforts. NDIA’s comments can be found here. They...
