FCC Publishes Additional Data Specifications for the Broadband Data Collection

On February 22, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission’s Broadband Data Task Force and Office of Economics and Analytics (OEA) announced the filing dates for the initial Broadband Data Collection (BDC) availability data collection. On March 9, the Task Force, OEA, the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, and the Office of Engineering and Technology released the BDC Mobile Technical Requirements Order, which adopts technical requirements to implement the BDC mobile challenge, verification, and crowdsourcing processes. The Task Force and OEA have also published two documents setting forth data specifications related to the BDC. The specifications provide guidance to filers on how to prepare and format mobile speed test data and infrastructure data for submission into the BDC system. Together with the data specifications related to the biannual submission of subscription, availability, and supporting data for the BDC, these are now available on the FCC’s Broadband Data Collection website here.