Coalition of ISPs Seeks FCC Enforcement Against Bad Broadband Data Reporting

A coalition of more than 50 small ISPs asked the FCC to investigate the "grossly inaccurate broadband speeds" reported by LTD Broadband to the commission's broadband data collection (BDC). The commission's recent enforcement action against Ohio's Jefferson County Cable TV for incorrect broadband location reporting "should serve as ample precedent for initiating enforcement actions against more egregious data reporting which is currently on the record," said the Accurate Broadband Data Alliance in an ex parte filing posted Monday in docket 19-195 (see 2403180063). The group argued that LTD and its subsidiary, GigFire, "continue to game the BDC" by "impugning the veracity of entities daring to file BDC challenges against the faulty data."