FCC Launches New Mobile Speed Test App

The Federal Communications Commission launched its new Mobile Speed Test app which features an enhanced user interface that makes challenging the accuracy of the provider-reported mobile coverage data even easier. The new app replaces the original FCC Speed Test app and is part of the FCC’s Broadband Data Collection program.  It enables users to obtain free, open, and transparent information about the performance of their mobile network.  Speed test data from the app help to improve the accuracy of the mobile coverage information displayed on the agency’s National Broadband Map (https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home).  Users can submit their tests to the FCC either as challenges to provider-reported coverage, or as crowdsource data that is used to inform the Commission’s verification and audit work, as well as other policy decisions. New features include: 

• “Repeated test” functionality allowing users to conduct repeated tests without having to enter and certify information before each individual test.  This also allows for hands-free mobile tests while driving.  
• An in-app map overlay displaying the area where a test was taken.
• The ability for users to log into the National Broadband Map to review their speed test results and see them on a map.

The updated app is available in both the Google Play Store for Android devices at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agence3pp.fcc and in the Apple App Store for iOS devices https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fcc-mobile-speed-test/id6470025404.