Colorado has nearly 194,000 households and businesses that remain unconnected to internet services, and the Polis administration has made it a goal to get 99% of the state connected to reliable broadband by 2027.
to help connect unserved and underserved communities. Unserved locations are defined as those with no access to download speeds of 25 Megabits per second and underserved as those lacking access to 100 Mbps or faster.
For years, the Federal Communications Commission relied on broadband providers to list where they were providing service down to the Census block. But in rural areas, those blocks can cover huge swaths of land. So long as a provider reached one town or even one building in a block, then the whole block was considered as having internet service.
The CBO has submitted 1,500 availability challenges and all were upheld by FCC, which typically happens because providers don’t dispute them. Another 13,000 more detailed location challenges have been submitted, of which 6,700 have been accepted so far. Getting the federal broadband maps as accurate as possible is key to winning federal dollars and making sure they are applied where they are most needed, Reitter said.
“We want to make sure if we are using taxpayer dollars, they are going to really good investments,” said Robyn Madison, regional director in the Northern Plains region for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration with the U.S. Department of Commerce, which is overseeing the disbursement of the BEAD and other grants.
But there are roadblocks Colorado needs to tackle to make sure it can get the most efficient use out of the federal broadband dollars it receives, a chief one raised during the summit being the ability of rural communities and their providers to access the right of way that the Colorado Department of Transportation controls so they can lay down fiber.
Jonas Durham, fiber development manager at CDOT, replied that streamlining and speeding up the approval process has been a top priority of his since he stepped into the job last July.
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