Update your FCC Map Location!
Want better internet?
do your part!
Does your Swain County home or business still need affordable, high speed broadband internet? Tell the FCC you need internet so that Swain County gets funding for your location.
This is Second Round of challenges, and we NEED Swain County Residents to update their locations. So many of them are still wrong! (Round One of Challenges happened from November 18, 2022 to January 13, 2023, and the FCC didn’t hear from all of us because so many locations are STILL WRONG.)
If you do not challenge incorrect data, your location could be considered already served on the current FCC Map.
The FCC Map determines the amount of funding that will be allocated to each county to support new or better internet deployment, as part of the $42.5 billion federal BEAD program. (BEAD means Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment.)
If you wait to do your update, it puts your home or business location at the back of the internet line, after 2024! Nobody wants that!
- Only locations with currently UNSERVED (less than 25/3) or UNDERSERVED (less than 100/20) broadband coverage, will be eligible for Federal Funding through the BEAD Program deployment for in Swain County.
- The FCC still needs to update its latest internet coverage maps, called the “FCC Fabric Map”, at the household level.
- All ISPs (internet service providers) were invited to send in their data on every single location where they say their service is available, as of June 30, 2022 or later.
- It does not matter whether or not the location has purchased service from them, only that they “say” they have service available. Not all ISPs replied.
- The FCC took all that data and created the “FABRIC MAP” of every location in the USA by 911 address, AND layered on that map the ISPs’ data of what internet services and speeds are available.
- Now it’s YOUR turn to update the map.
- Note: This applies to all Western North Carolina counties challenged by poor internet – citizens on other counties besides Swain ALSO must rally and update their FCC map locations.
Western North Carolina counties can’t get our full share of funding without the input of our citizens! Find and update your location today.
Did you get this postcard?
- You are in the right place!
- Check your location: Verify or Correct it.
- Check your location's availability - Verify or Correct it.
- Tell your neighbors and friends to go to broadbandmap.fcc.gov to verify their FCC map data, too!
- Friends without WIFI: Go to Marianna Black Library, Staff will help you in person to update your FCC location.
- PUBLIC FREE WIFI LOCATIONS: In Bryson City town center
STEP 1: how to verify or correct (challenge) your location
- Go to broadbandmap.fcc.gov
- Enter your address
- Verify that your address is correct
- If it's correct, move to Step 2, verify availability
- If it's NOT correct, challenge the location data by submitting updated correct address information.
- You will not be able to check availability data until you have a valid location.
- Watch this video for how to submit a location challenge.
STEP 2: how to verify or correct (challenge) your internet availability
- Go to broadbandmap.fcc.gov
- Enter your location address
- Check the list of internet availability under your location
- If your internet availability data is correct, you are all set.
- If your internet availability data is incorrect, challenge that data by submitting corrections to it.
- Watch this video for how to challenge your location's internet availability.
Apply for the ACP - Affordable Connectivity Program
- Go to fcc.gov/acp
- Qualifying households can get a discount of up to $30/month for internet service.
- Qualifying tribal lands can get up to $75/month discount on internet service.
- Find out if you are eligible at fcc.gov/acp
- Apply now!
- Watch this video to understand how ACP works
NC Broadband survey - update your information!
- Updated data goes into new NC funding programs and FCC Map data on a rolling basis.
- Update your information at NC Broadband
- If you filled this survey out before June 30, 2022, you need to redo you information.
- Thank you for helping NC get the most updated information about local community broadband gaps.
- Tell your neighbors and friends to update the broadband survey, too!