Connect Iowa Releases USF Mobility Fund Eligibility Maps & Analysis

Ensuring ubiquitous availability of next-generation mobile broadband networks is critical to economic development and growth. Recognizing this importance, the Federal Communications Commission later this year will distribute $300 million in subsidies to support the construction of high-speed mobile broadband networks in areas that do not currently have mobile broadband access. Today, Connect Iowa is releasing an analysis of the FCC’s preliminary list of areas in Iowa that are eligible for the FCC’s Mobility Fund. On February 10, 2012, the FCC released a list of areas in Iowa census blocks that it had determined do not currently have access...