


Census Bureau, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), M-Lab, Ookla and Microsoft. It contains data aggregated at the county, census tract, and census block level from the U.S. The public “Indicators of Broadband Need” tool released today puts on one map, for the first time, data from both public and private sources. This is the first interactive, public map that allows users to explore different datasets about where people do not have quality Internet access. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released a new publicly available digital map that displays key indicators of broadband needs across the country. NTIA map links poverty usage and broadband access by compiling data sets to show where high-poverty communities are located with relation to internet usage patterns and access to computers and related equipment
