CTIA, WISPA Urge Changes to BDC Challenge Process
CTIA urged the FCC to refine the broadband data collection (BDC) process (see 2402200073). “For the mobile challenge process, the data indicate that the Commission has created a user-friendly process and that providers have submitted more accurate and granular maps,”…
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CTIA said in comments posted Wednesday in docket 19-195: “At the same time, the Commission should adopt refinements to the mobile challenge process to help improve accuracy.” Among the changes CTIA sought were more flexibility and clarity in how “providers may use infrastructure data to rebut challenges” improving the stability and reliability of the FCC speed test app. Wireless ISP Association members are frustrated with how the process is working on required interactions between challengers and providers. “In some cases, the challenger simply does not want to engage with the provider or be shown that its methodology may be inferior,” WISPA said. “The challenger will not concede the disputed locations and would rather have the [Broadband Data Task Force] decide because there is no incentive for the challenger to voluntarily acquiesce to the provider’s data or methodologies,” the group said.