Residential broadband service areas based on provider, technology, and max advertised speeds.

These service area polygons are derived from the FCC's National Broadband Map , opens in a new tab . Data are downloaded monthly from the BDC API, aggregated to the H3 level 8 polygons identified in the data, and then spatially dissolved to create individual polygons for each provider's technologies and max advertised speeds. Thus, each polygon represents the area a particular provider claims served by a given technology and up/down speeds.

Because the data are aggregated by H3 ID and max speeds advertised by the provider for the given tech, each hexagon in the service area has at least one location where the provider advertises those speeds and technology. It does not guarantee all locations in that hexagon have that advertised service.

The FCC data are updated on a twice-yearly schedule , opens in a new tab . We update monthly to catch any mid-cycle updates that may be released.

Individual availability records are based on the " Location Fabric , opens in a new tab ," which is a collection of Broadband Serviceable Locations (BSLs) that identify individual locations that are served by mass-market broadband service or could conceivably order mass-market broadband service. This fabric is created and owned by a third-party consultant and licensed to the FCC and participating entities. This license prevents sharing the locations of the BSL to non-licensees but does allow aggregated data to be shared; hence why we aggregate the data to H3 level 8 polygons.

Attribute schema explanation

• brand_name: Broadband Provider Company Name
• max_advertised_download_speed: Highest advertised download speed in Mbps claimed by a provider in a given H3 cell
• max_advertised_upload_speed: Highest advertised upload speed in Mbps claimed by a provider in a given H3 cell
• common_tech: Common names for technology types
• category: General grouping of technology types into wired, wireless (for fixed-wireless technologies), and satellite
• technology_name: Technology type reported to the FCC