FCC Announces the Start of the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric Bulk Challenge Process

The Federal Communications Commission announced that as of September 12, 2022, state, local, and Tribal governments, service providers, and other entities can begin to file bulk challenges to data in the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric, which serves as the foundation for the Broadband Data Collection (BDC) fixed availability maps. The FCC will also host a webinar on September 7, 2022, at 2 pm Eastern time to assist state, local, and Tribal governments, service providers, and other entities who intend to submit bulk challenges, or proposed corrections, to the location data in the Fabric. Starting on September 12, 2022, governmental entities, broadband service providers, and other entities that have obtained Fabric data using the process set forth in prior public notices may submit bulk challenges to the Fabric data in the BDC system. These stakeholders are uniquely positioned to provide early feedback on a large number of locations included in the Fabric data, which will help to refine the next version of the Fabric expected to be released in December 2022. Once the BDC broadband maps are published later in 2022, members of the public will be able to view the maps and submit online challenges to the Fabric data associated with an individual location using the map interface.