According to the latest data collection, current as of June 30, 2012, 98 percent of Americans have access to wired or wireless broadband with download speeds of at least 3 Mbps and upload speeds of at least 768 kbps. Wireless speeds of at least 6 Mbps are available to 81 percent of the country.
Both federal and state government participated in the project, as well as the voluntary participation of broadband Internet providers. Each state located broadband availability by census block, which includes an average population of 28 people and divided the country into more than 11 million distinct areas to check for broadband availability.
Users can search for specific communities on www.broadbandmap.gov and analyze the data by comparing different regions or providers.
NTIA, part of the United States Department of Commerce, launched the National Broadband Map two years ago and has updated it every six months.
The data collection was funded by NTIA from the Recovery Act. States collected their data from broadband providers, publicly available data, and third-party data sets.
This story was originally published at Techwire.net
Image courtesy of the National Broadband Map
