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PlainBroadband is a data portal that makes the FCC's Form 477 fixed broadband deployment data searchable and readable. The team compiles and verifies public federal datasets, presents them in plain language, and does not accept payment from the providers it covers.
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plainbroadband is a data-journalism publisher: we compile public datasets, verify them against their official sources, and present them in plain language. Editorial standards, sourcing, and how we handle corrections are described on our about and methodology pages. Report a data issue via the corrections pathway.
Download the Form 477 state landscape extract cited on this page: plainbroadband-form477-state-landscape.csv (FCC public records · public domain).
PlainBroadband is rendered directly from the FCC Form 477 fixed broadband deployment dataset (June 2020 status, the final Form 477 release), no number is typed in by an editor. Every author profile linked here points to a page whose figures are computed directly from the underlying FCC Form 477 census-block records, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of June 2020.