The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association — better known as URISA — is the main association for professionals in the GIS and geospatial space.
We were fortunate enough to be selected to present a portion of our work on broadband infrastructure at URISA’s annual conference GIS-Pro-2023 last fall in Columbus, Ohio.
Our presentation, “Rural areas are overrepresented in unserved areas and underestimated in statistics,” utilized FCC NBM data to demonstrate several points:
The new dataset (NBM) represents an improvement over the previous one (derived from F477).
Despite the narrowing gap between rural and nonrural areas, significant disparities still exist.
The current BEAD definition of an “unserved area” is less suitable for rural areas than for urban areas.
You can dig more into our presentation HERE!