The dirty little secret here is that the [FCC Internet] maps have always been awful, and everyone has known that the maps were always awful.

Harold Feld, senior vice president of Public Knowledge and a 15-year veteran of broadband advocacy, discussing Georgia’s three-county pilot mapping project that demonstrated up to 40 percent error rates in FCC Internet maps. Under the conventional method, the presence of one connected house in a 1,000-house Census block are recorded as 1,000 connected houses. (APM Marketplace – October 23, 2019)