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May 17, 2021
The Office of State Broadband within the Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel announces that a newly released report from BroadbandNow, which performs independent research and data on high-speed Internet access in the U.S., finds that 386,786 residents in the State of Connecticut do not have access to broadband.
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The analysis was performed by checking a sample of addresses against data that had been provided by wireline broadband Internet providers to the Federal Communications Commission. The study found that the providers over-reported to the FCC availability of broadband service in cities, rural towns and everywhere in between.
Out of a population of 3,565,000, the report found that 386,786 Connecticut residents were without broadband access. BroadbandNow observed an error rate of 22% in data submitted to the FCC by providers. Broadband is defined as Internet access at a download speed of no less than 25 Megabits per second (Mbps) and an upl