Observed arrival · 2026-10-08
BroadScout separates broadband adoption from availability
BroadScout presents Census-based broadband subscription estimates for U.S. places, alongside separate information about provider-reported availability.
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- It explicitly warns that provider-reported availability is a different measure from households' reported subscriptions.
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The homepage gives a national estimate of 91.0% ± 0.1 percentage points at the 90% confidence level, based on 129,227,496 households in the 2024 ACS. It cautions that adding up Census-place figures would omit households outside those places and would not produce a valid national total. Its rankings also say thin estimates and saturated samples are excluded and counted, rather than being allowed to distort comparisons.
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