Broadband Data by Town - 2023

<p><b>This feature layer includes all OPM collected data at the town level.</b><br /></p><p>-------------</p><p>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.</p>

<p>This map uses OPM collected availability and adoption data.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>Metadata:</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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
&quot;GigC&quot; 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.</p>

<p>The final field included in all availability data is the
provider list.</p>

<p>OPM collected adoption data:</p>

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

<p>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
&quot;served&quot; field as this does not directly apply to FCC use of the
terms.</p>