On May 2, 2019, the FCC published corrections to the Fixed Broadband Deployment data for December, 2017. The bulk of the corrections involved two providers: BarrierFree and King Street Wireless, L.P.
The changes affected 35 states and territories. A few of the corrections, such as revising a provider’s name, have no real effect on the analysis.
Each record in the dataset provides data for a single provider in a single census block. The table below indicates how each state was affected. The notes field indicates whether a provider was removed (-), added (+), or otherwise modified. In this analysis, I used the providers “Doing business as” name to identify the name of a provider.
| Distinct Providers | Number of Records | Notes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Original | Revised | Change | Original | Revised | Change | (-): removed; (+): added, (!): changed or adjusted |
| AK | 47 | 47 | 0 | 136,370 | 136,370 | 0 | |
| AL | 110 | 110 | 0 | 1,455,734 | 1,455,734 | 0 | |
| AR | 99 | 99 | 0 | 955,078 | 955,078 | 0 | |
| AS | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1,674 | 1,674 | 0 | (!) :American Samoa Telecommunications Authority (spelled out “Telecomm.”;) |
| AZ | 107 | 107 | 0 | 1,405,778 | 1,405,778 | 0 | |
| CA | 208 | 207 | -1 | 5,013,004 | 5,000,984 | -12,020 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P. |
| CO | 140 | 141 | 1 | 1,265,689 | 1,265,690 | 1 | (+) Rowe Internet |
| CT | 45 | 44 | -1 | 595,520 | 460,364 | -135,156 | (-) BarrierFree |
| DC | 45 | 44 | -1 | 57,247 | 44,233 | -13,014 | (-) BarrierFree |
| DE | 33 | 33 | 0 | 139,009 | 139,009 | 0 | |
| FL | 135 | 135 | 0 | 2,977,512 | 2,977,512 | 0 | |
| GA | 156 | 155 | -1 | 1,639,992 | 1,639,991 | -1 | (-) Texoma Broadband Services LLC |
| GU | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4,539 | 4,539 | 0 | |
| HI | 21 | 21 | 0 | 151,201 | 151,201 | 0 | |
| IA | 289 | 288 | -1 | 1,356,299 | 1,351,293 | -5006 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P.; (!) Lehigh Valley Cooperative Telephone Association, Ogden Telephone Company |
| ID | 85 | 85 | 0 | 865,656 | 865,656 | 0 | |
| IL | 228 | 227 | -1 | 3,335,972 | 3,253,367 | -82,605 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P. |
| IN | 146 | 146 | 0 | 1,949,549 | 1,939,836 | -9,713 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P.; (!) Tele-Media Solutions |
| KS | 144 | 142 | -2 | 1,651,510 | 1,644,774 | -6,736 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P., Aire Internet; |
| KY | 115 | 114 | -1 | 956,968 | 951,941 | -5,027 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P. |
| LA | 79 | 79 | 0 | 1,158,617 | 1,158,617 | 0 | |
| MA | 76 | 75 | -1 | 884,494 | 884,493 | -1 | (-) Texoma Broadband Services LLC |
| MD | 82 | 82 | 0 | 1,115,418 | 825,130 | -290,288 | (-) BarrierFree; (+) Anne Arundel Broadband |
| ME | 46 | 45 | -1 | 363,860 | 363,589 | -271 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P. |
| MI | 160 | 160 | 0 | 2,258,324 | 2,254,291 | -4,033 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P.; (+) Cedar Creek Wireless |
| MN | 176 | 175 | -1 | 1,656,645 | 1,650,651 | -5,994 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P. |
| MO | 186 | 185 | -1 | 2,208,405 | 2,158,741 | -49,664 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P.; (!) GRM Networks, Inc. |
| MP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4,111 | 4,111 | 0 | |
| MS | 76 | 76 | 0 | 952,984 | 952,984 | 0 | |
| MT | 74 | 74 | 0 | 731,939 | 731,939 | 0 | (!) Southern Montana Telephone Company |
| NC | 121 | 121 | 0 | 1,785,685 | 1,763,043 | -22,642 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P.; (+) Rowe Internet |
| ND | 56 | 56 | 0 | 680,545 | 680,545 | 0 | |
| NE | 129 | 128 | -1 | 1,348,183 | 1,347,571 | -612 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P. |
| NH | 40 | 39 | -1 | 274,631 | 273,411 | -1,220 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P. |
| NJ | 74 | 73 | -1 | 1,593,404 | 1,254,228 | -339,176 | (-) BarrierFree |
| NM | 78 | 78 | 0 | 928,064 | 928,064 | 0 | |
| NV | 76 | 76 | 0 | 490,229 | 490,229 | 0 | |
| NY | 133 | 132 | -1 | 2,897,355 | 2,430,149 | -467,206 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P., (!) BarrierFree |
| OH | 171 | 171 | 0 | 2,529,516 | 2,523,255 | -6,261 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P., (+) Rowe Internet |
| OK | 135 | 134 | -1 | 1,582,863 | 1,577,959 | -4,904 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P., (-) Aire Internet, (-) Texoma Broadband Services, LLC; (+) AirLink Internet Services, (+) Rowe Internet |
| OR | 118 | 117 | -1 | 1,148,316 | 1,139,651 | -8,665 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P. |
| PA | 135 | 133 | -2 | 3,407,801 | 2,562,022 | -845,779 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P., (-) BarrierFree |
| PR | 15 | 15 | 0 | 528,458 | 528,458 | 0 | |
| RI | 30 | 29 | -1 | 198,984 | 148,622 | -50,362 | (-) BarrierFree |
| SC | 83 | 83 | 0 | 1,065,221 | 1,065,221 | 0 | |
| SD | 72 | 72 | 0 | 489,795 | 489,795 | 0 | |
| TN | 128 | 128 | 0 | 1,480,797 | 1,481,487 | 690 | (!) ECSIS.NET |
| TX | 292 | 290 | -2 | 6,342,789 | 6,336,367 | -6,422 | (-) Texoma Broadband Services LLC; (!) NextLink Residential |
| UT | 78 | 78 | 0 | 699,491 | 699,491 | 0 | |
| VA | 125 | 123 | -2 | 2,082,395 | 1,497,872 | -584,523 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P., (-) BarrierFree |
| VI | 5 | 5 | 0 | 32,207 | 32,207 | 0 | |
| VT | 37 | 36 | -1 | 183,407 | 169,366 | -14,041 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P. |
| WA | 128 | 127 | -1 | 1,365,567 | 1,362,588 | -2,979 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P. |
| WI | 152 | 151 | -1 | 1,719,956 | 1681814 | -38,142 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P. |
| WV | 59 | 58 | -1 | 829,422 | 776,808 | -52,614 | (-) King Street Wireless L.P. |
| WY | 55 | 55 | 0 | 470,901 | 470,901 | 0 | |