Broadband Data by Tract - 2023

This feature layer provides all OPM collected data at the tract level.

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The Connecticut Broadband Availability and Adoption Maps were created to help citizens and policymakers understand the strengths and weaknesses of broadband infrastructure in the state. Data is aggregated to the block, tract, and town (county subdivision) levels and includes counts of locations classified as unserved, underserved, and served as well as whether they meet the state goal of 1000Mbps/100Mbps. This application splits its visualizations into block, tract, and town layers for both unserved locations and progress to the state goal.

This map uses OPM collected availability and adoption data.

As of 2023, OPM collected availability data was submitted by internet service providers pursuant to PA 21-159 and processed by the GIS Office in the Office of Policy and Management, cleaned, and matched to the CostQuest location fabric.

Metadata:

All feature layers, maps, and datasets including OPM's internal broadband availability data follows the same basic schema with additional fields added in some case for convenience.

Fields named no service, unserved, underserved, served, and GigC are counts of locations where a particular level of broadband service is provided, No service locations are those where there is no reported service at all. Unserved locations are locations where there is a provider offering wireline service, but not at or above 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload. Underserved locations are locations where at least one provider offers wireline service of 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload, but there is no provider offering wireline service of 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload. Served locations are locations where there is wireline service of at least 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload. GigC denotes the count of locations that have service at 1000 Mbps download and 100 Mbps upload. Accordingly, total locations is equal to the sum of no service, unserved, underserved, served, and "GigC" locations. Availability also includes fields for average download and upload speeds. These are calculated at the relevant level of census geography based on the maximum for all locations.

The final field included in all availability data is the provider list.

OPM collected adoption data:

OPM collected adoption data uses many of the same naming conventions as the availability data, but there are some notable differences.

Fields named unserved_Sub, underserved_Sub, served_Sub, and GigC _Sub are counts of subscriptions where a particular level of broadband service is currently subscribed to, Unserved subscriptions are subscriptions that do not meet the standard of 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload. Underserved subscriptions are subscriptions with speeds of 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload, but not meeting 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload. Served subscriptions are subscriptions where speeds are between 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload and 1000 Mbps download and 100 Mbps upload. GigC denotes the count of locations that have a subscription at 1000 Mbps download and 100 Mbps upload or higher. For subscription data these locations are NOT included in the "served" field as this does not directly apply to FCC use of the terms.