Recently, NTIA disallowed the entire BEAD proposal from Wash DC because they went out and inspected a few of the supposedly unserved locations with high proposed subsidies, and found they were laughable. But then the Wash DC broadband people pointed out the locations were from the FCC database.
I didn’t know who to side with, both seemed to have valid points. Maybe I lean toward NTIA in this case, DC could have done some due diligence and pruned the list of unserved locations. Maybe they took the view they could only do that if someone submitted a challenge. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck Sent: Friday, March 27, 2026 1:26 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] GIS file of grant project areas I wonder how they will replicate this after bead…. They have funded this idea several times now. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 27, 2026, at 10:36 AM, Josh Luthman <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Yep! RDOF is CBG BEAD is location fabric, individual houses Reconnect is a PFSA, a polygon(s) defining the project area To maximize government waste. Do the task three different ways to avoid being able to share resources. Oh and that FCC fabric is tax payer funded meanwhile ISPs are expected to be the ones to correct the data set. On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 11:47 AM Cameron Crum <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: The earlier ones were polygons, blocks and such, but the Bead is locations so you'd be looking at mixed data as well. On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 9:18 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: And then you’d need the list of defaults. Apparently RDOF had a bunch of those. From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Friday, March 27, 2026 8:53 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] GIS file of grant project areas RDOF, BEAD, and Reconnect are there different government agencies. Of course they are not all in one spot. You can download those three from three spots. If you want to start including states, it'll be more places to look. Local stuff...jesus... On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 9:36 AM Adam Moffett <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Is there any consolidated map of federal broadband grant funded areas? A shape file or KMZ would be ideal. -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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