Ghost Signal (The Broadband Desert Truth)

The government's own broadband maps said your neighborhood was covered — but a 2020 Microsoft study found 162.8 million Americans weren't actually using internet at broadband speeds, nearly double the FCC's count. The old mapping method only required ONE address in a census block to be 'served' to mark the whole block green — and $47 billion in subsidies followed those flawed maps. This is what a ghost signal looks like.

• Fact 1: The FCC's old Form 477 mapping method declared a full census block 'served' if a single provider claimed they *could* serve just one address there — meaning millions of homes were counted as connected when they weren't. (Source: FCC Broadband Data Task Force reports, 2019–2022)
• Fact 2: A 2020 Microsoft study found that 162.8 million Americans were not using the internet at broadband speeds — nearly double the FCC's official count of 21.3 million unserved. (Source: Microsoft Airband Initiative, 2020)
• Fact 3: Between 2009 and 2017, the federal government distributed over $47 billion in broadband subsidies — much of it directed using the flawed maps that over-reported coverage. (Source: GAO Report GAO-18-538, 2018)

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