The FCC finally made a new broadband map of the US
Image: FCC The Federal Communications Commission has launched a new map designed to show consumers what kind of cellular coverage they can expect in a given area from AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular, and Verizon. It's been a long time coming, and it doesn't address home internet availability, but it looks like an improvement over the agency's woefully inadequate and inaccurate past attempts to show gaps in the nation's broadband coverage.
As Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel pointed out on Twitter, it shouldn't have taken this long for this map to be available. The law requiring that these maps be made, known as the Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability (DATA) Act, was signed in March 2020, and the lack of details about broadband...