Accelerate Network Design
Precise structure locations so you know where to build, before truck rolls.
Speed up HUBB filings and coverage polygon creation with serviceable structures already cleaned & organized.
Expedite Regulatory Reporting
Image shown is a sample county in California.
BroadbandFabric
Accurate lat/lon coordinates and addresses, without all the noise.
BroadbandFabric
Data built for broadband.
Data Designed for Better Broadband Planning
Data provided in whichever file formats are easiest for your team,
at no extra charge.
Our focus is providing broadband serviceable locations, with rooftop lat/lon coordinates and confident addresses that you can use.
CAF + RDOF Ready
Locations are categorized by program eligibility and can accelerate your build-out obligation planning or subsequent filings.
HOW IT WORKS
Locate potential demand & RDOF locations in three steps
Pick any U.S. County
CQA securely cleans and
delivers location data
CQA location data is ready
for any GIS system
Once you've identified which areas you're interested in, simply provide us with the FIPS code(s), any customer addresses to be analyzed, and we'll get to work.
We can update lat/lon coordinates for your existing customers, provide locations you may be missing, or simply show you serviceable locations in and around RDOF eligible areas.
We'll deliver files via a secure portal (these files are big!), give you a crash course on what you're getting, and you'll be good to go.
Create accurate costs estimates to deploy and service take rates with better counts and locations.
Enhance Demand Planning
Fabric Data Includes:
The BroadbandFabric is the first comprehensive data set of broadband serviceable structures, with data available in all 50 states. Over 860M data points are analyzed with the end goal of selecting only the primary homes and businesses in the U.S. that are serviceable for broadband.
Data is available as low as the county level, includes RDOF-eligible locations, and can be exported into any major GIS file format for easy importing.
How We Got Started
How Does the Fabric Look in a GIS?
Below is a sample image of a county in California, once the Fabric data is loaded into your GIS, you can then layer in what we call "active Fabric points." Each Fabric point indicates a structure capable of receiving broadband service, along with land use, parcel, footprint, and tax assessor information for each point.
Toggle left & right on the map below, to see how the BroadbandFabric lights up your GIS map with "active Fabric points." For the purpose of this example we are just showing you the active Fabric points, not all the information that comes with each point.
Accelerate Network Design
Precise structure locations so you know where to build, before truck rolls.
Enhance Demand Planning
Create accurate costs estimates to deploy and service take rates with better counts and locations.
Expedite Regulatory Reporting
Speed up HUBB filings and coverage polygon creation with serviceable structures already cleaned & organized.
The BroadbandFabric is the first comprehensive data set of broadband serviceable structures, with data available in all 50 states. Over 860M data points are analyzed with the end goal of selecting only the primary homes and businesses in the U.S. that are serviceable for broadband.
Data is available as low as the county level, includes RDOF-eligible locations, and can be exported into any major GIS file format for easy importing.
Granular Accuracy
Discover RDOF Locations
Precise coordinates for serviceable locations in RDOF eligible areas.
Get Started
We understand that no data set is perfect. We want you to feel confident the Fabric data will enhance your team's efforts.
Pick a county for your sample, and we'll help make sure it's the right fit for your team.
For more information feel free to contact us at:
broadbandfabric@costquest.com
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Who we Work With
CQA works with service providers, and governments – federal, state, and local. While we’re most known for our work with the FCC, we work with providers of all sizes.
RDOF Locations
Precise coordinates for serviceable locations in RDOF eligible areas.
BroadbandFabric
Let's Discover
GIS Compatible
BroadbandFabric
Accurate lat/lon coordinates and addresses, without all the noise.
Broadband Fabric
Data built for broadband.
Easily load broadband serviceable strucutres into your GIS.
Accurate lat/lon coordinates and addresses, without all the noise.
Easily locate demand in your service area.
Import-ready datasets built for identifying broadband serviceable locations.
BroadbandFabric
Accurate latitude/longitude coordinates for virtually every broadband serviceable structure.
Rooftop Coordinates
Accurate latitude/longitude coordinates for virtually every broadband serviceable structures.
Rooftop Coordinates
Addresses
Standardized addresses, cross-referenced with four databases.
Addresses
Standard addresses, backed up by potential alternative version or alias.
Attributes
Structure-level unique identifiers, land use, CAF/RDOF eligibility, etc. Hone in on what's important, layer in detail on top.
Live Customer Support
A team of real, live human beings are ready to help you when you need it.
Live Customer Support
A team of real, live human beings are ready to help you when you need it.
The Broadband Mapping Initiative
While national estimates of the broadband gap have been available through the FCC broadband reporting, the information reported hasn't been at the granular level needed to identify where broadband is lacking. In 2019, CQA managed a pilot in Missouri and Virginia to demonstrate the feasibility of identifying the precise number and location of every structure in the states that are available for broadband access. With the combination of industry expertise and help from trade associations and select providers, CQA created the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric, to make it possible to precisely map where broadband is available and where it isn't. It was discovered in the Pilot that as many as 38% of additional rural locations are unserved in census blocks that would have been filed as served in today's FCC Form 477 reporting approach. Therefore exemplifying the need for granular data in broadband maps, a need the BroadbandFabric can now fill.
Before
Pictured here are 10 Census Blocks in MO that would be identified as SERVED in today's Form 477. We call this the "one-served, all-served" reporting, which does not capture the locations within the census blocks, whether served or unserved.
Now with the polygon approach for Form 477, you can now see (pictured below) areas that are served based on geocoded addresses of served locations.
During
After
When Pilot Provider data, filed in the HUBB, was matched to the Fabric, it was clear that additional locations existed. Pictured here, active Fabric points in green are those served by providers, while active Fabric points in red are not. This demonstrates how the Fabric can serve as the foundation for a more granular broadband map, creating a clearer picture of the served and unserved when combined with provider data.
After
However when the Form 477 polygons were compared to the Fabric points, it was clear the polygons based on poor geocoded information will miss locations. Displayed below, you can see active Fabric points in green and red, showing more locations that are served and unserved that Form 477 missed.
Parcel boundaries, land use, RDOF eligibility, etc. Filter out what you don't need, layer in detail on top.
Attributes
Rooftop Coordinates
Accurate latitude/longitude coordinates for virtually every broadband serviceable structures.
Addressess
Standard addresses, backed up by potential alternative version or alias.
Attributes
Parcel boundaries, land use, RDOF eligibility, etc. Filter out what you don't need, layer in detail on top.
Live Customer Support
A team of real, live human beings are ready to help you when you need it.
The Broadband Mapping Initiative
While national estimates of the broadband gap have been available through the FCC broadband reporting, the information reported hasn't been at the granular level needed to identify where broadband is lacking. In 2019, CQA managed a pilot in Missouri and Virginia to demonstrate the feasibility of identifying the precise number and location of every structure in the states that are available for broadband access. With the combination of industry expertise and help from trade associations and select providers, CQA created the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric, to make it possible to precisely map where broadband is available and where it isn't. It was discovered in the Pilot that as many as 38% of additional rural locations are unserved in census blocks that would have been filed as served in today's FCC Form 477 reporting approach. Therefore exemplifying the need for granular data in broadband maps, a need the BroadbandFabric can now fill.
Pictured here are 10 Census Blocks in MO that would be identified as SERVED in today's Form 477. We call this the "one-served, all-served" reporting, which does not capture the locations within the census blocks, whether served or unserved.
Before
Now with the polygon approach for Form 477, you can now see (pictured below) areas that are served based on geocoded addresses of served locations.
When Pilot Provider data, filed in the HUBB, was matched to the Fabric, it was clear that additional locations existed. Pictured here, active Fabric points in green are those served by providers, while active Fabric points in red are not. This demonstrates how the Fabric can serve as the foundation for a more granular broadband map, creating a clearer picture of the served and unserved when combined with provider data.
After
Find the Right Structures with Location Data for Broadband
GIS READY
Easily integrate broadband location data
Data designed for better broadband planning
The BroadbandFabric is the first comprehensive data set of broadband serviceable structures, with data available in all 50 states. Over 860M data points are analyzed with the end goal of selecting only the primary homes and businesses in the U.S. that are serviceable for broadband.
Data is available as low as the county level, includes locations in RDOF-eligible areas, and can be exported in multiple file formats for easy importing.
The BroadbandFabric is the first comprehensive data set of broadband serviceable structures, with data available in all 50 states. Over 860M data points are analyzed with the end goal of selecting only the primary homes and businesses in the U.S. that are serviceable for broadband.
Data is available as low as the county level, includes RDOF-eligible locations, and can be exported into any major GIS file format for easy importing.
