GAO: Agencies Need to Better Coordinate Broadband Deployment Efforts
The FCC needs to do more to ensure that its broadband map data is complete, accurate and reliable, and federal agencies broadly need to work together better to prevent duplication of their broadband program efforts, according to the Government Accountability…
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Office. In a report Monday, the GAO called the accuracy of FCC broadband map data "uncertain" and said the agency must document or assess whether it does enough to ensure accuracy. It gave the FCC, NTIA, Department of Agriculture and Treasury Department -- which administer the bulk of federal broadband deployment funding -- a mixed report card for their coordination efforts with one another. There's more to be done among those agencies in such areas as defining common outcomes, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and bridging organizational cultures, the report said. They need to define their collaborations more clearly and document a formal process for avoiding duplicate funding, it added. The FCC didn't comment.