{"id":1791646,"date":"2021-09-01T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1791646"},"modified":"2021-09-01T15:01:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T19:01:56","slug":"fcc-releases-4g-lte-availability-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/09\/fcc-releases-4g-lte-availability-map\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Releases 4G\/LTE Availability Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month the U.S. Federal Communications Commission released an interactive map showing 4G\/LTE cellular voice and data coverage in the United States<\/a> from the four major providers. This is the first FCC map released under the 2020 Broadband DATA<\/abbr> Act, which mandated better maps than the FCC has been producing in the past (previously<\/a>). [The Verge<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month the U.S. Federal Communications Commission released an interactive map showing 4G\/LTE cellular voice and data coverage in the United States from the four major providers. This is the first FCC map released under… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[1532,1180,1177,158],"class_list":["post-1791646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-infrastructure","tag-cellular-networks","tag-fcc","tag-telecommunications","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785292,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/04\/the-fccs-broadband-map-hallucinates-broadband-access\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791646,"position":0},"title":"The FCC’s Broadband Map ‘Hallucinates’ Broadband Access","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"6 April 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"In February the FCC released a new broadband map showing the availability of high-speed internet in the United States. 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