The FCC of the Obama administration has been very keen to highlight the fact that many Americans today still
aren't riding the information superhighway, a mission of awareness-spreading that was advanced a little more yesterday with the introduction of the National Broadband Map. Mostly the work of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, this $200 million project provides broadband data for thousands of providers with over 25 million searchable records -- all of which can be visualized in map form, categorized by connectivity type, or downloaded in full to your computer. APIs have been made available for anyone interested in remixing / using the NBM elsewhere, while information updates are promised every six months. In terms of the maps' content, we're still seeing unsatisfactorily wide swathes of broadband-free countryside, but we suppose the first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one.
United States gets a National Broadband Map, finds much of its nation doesn't have broadband originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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