FCC Broadband Opportunity Map
RDOF Phase 1 Results
Is your rural Western North Carolina community striving for broadband?
Is Starlink low earth satellite a possibility for your internet needs?
The Federal Communication Committee has developed a drillable map of ‘Rural Digital Opportunity Funding‘ or RDOF – Phase 1 results by:
- Gigabit: low latency
- Above baseline; low latency
- Above baseline; high latency
- Baseline; low latency
- Minimum; low latency
- No Winning Bidder
https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/maps/rdof-phase-i-dec-2020/
Contact a member of the WNC Broadband Project Team to learn more about getting dependable, high-speed internet in your community.
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Challenges Facing Satellite-Based Internet
Frequently Asked Questions About Broadband
Latency and Satellite for Internet Service…
Delay is the time that it takes for the bits of information or data to get across the network and back. Delay is typically measured in milliseconds (msec) or 1/1000th of a second. Two-way applications, such as conferencing, are sensitive to delay. Minimal delay is also very important in interactive gaming applications. For today’s Internet access, 20 msec is excellent. Most applications can tolerate delay of two to three times this length without an adverse effect.
Broadband Latency
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Federal Communications Commission. (2020). Federal Communications Commission. https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/maps/rdof-phase-i-dec-2020/