Broadband

With advanced GIS analytics, you can identify statistically relevant areas to allocate resources, whether it's a business corridor, a neighborhood of K–12 students, or another critical region. After identifying priority areas, quickly present service providers with projects that increase customers, coverage, and profits while also addressing community concerns about speed, access, cost, and equity. A strategic plan and public-private partnership can help support and strengthen applications for broadband funding.

As communities work to expand broadband coverage and promote economic mobility, each investment decision needs to incorporate equity considerations. GIS analytics and social equity tools can help identify priority populations and where gaps in broadband coverage occur so that investment can be prioritized in underserved and unserved communities.

Governments may not be the service provider, but feedback and concerns from residents often come directly to you. Better communicate your plans and activities to improve service levels with information hubs. Showcase performance dashboards of service-level improvements across the community as you build relationships with new providers and expand service. Use mobile survey tools to solicit feedback and validate coverage and speed from residents and businesses directly.

With an influx of broadband funding and infrastructure investment in communities across the nation, a geographic approach is essential to right-of-way management. To effectively plan broadband expansion projects, facilitate acquisition of property or analysis of existing rights-of-way, and improve coordination with stakeholders, organizations must have rights-of-way mapped and managed in GIS.