Missed Connections

The Obama Administration has allocated billions to expand broadband service to underserved areas, but the first step is spending millions of dollars to find those areas. And how that mapping is done will greatly affect whether the digital divide will be bridged. Mark McElroy is the Senior Vice President of Communications for Connected Nation, the nation's largest broadband service mapping company. Art Brodsky is the communications director for Public Knowledge, a leading critic of Connected Nation's mapping methodology.