Officials in Colorado said they’ve been aggressively collecting challenges to the Federal Communications Commission’s nationwide broadband map ahead of the June 30 deadline for the U.S. Commerce Department to award $42.5 billion in high-speed internet grants.
By submitting enough corrections to the FCC map — the first version of which was published last fall — Colorado could tip its eventual allocation from the Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment grant program close to $1 billion.