Monroe County wants residents to gather data on their connection speed at home — data the state uses to decide which areas get federal money for broadband projects.
Indiana has $868 million from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program to improve broadband in every part of the state, focusing on places with low network speeds.
But the areas that the FCC thinks have access to high-speed internet could still be underserved.
John Baeten, Monroe County GIS Coordinator, said the FCC’s map is largely inaccurate.
“It's kind of negating any other location that maybe isn't getting that high quality internet speed that the internet providers are claiming to provide,” he said.
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