February 10th, 2012
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Zoom Attn: mobile journalists! futurejournalismproject: Mapping Where Your Phone Won’t Work The FCC created an interactive map highlighting areas in the United States that lack 3G mobile access.  The regions are eligible for Mobility Fund Phase 1 support, a $300 million fund that carriers can apply for to bring wireless broadband to neglected areas.  Via the FCC: This map shows the areas preliminarily identified as potentially eligible for Mobility Fund Phase 1 support. These areas are US Census blocks that lack 3G or better mobile coverage at the centroid of the block according to October 2011 American Roamer data and contain road miles in any of nine road categories. Counties that contain any of these blocks are shaded light gray, and as you zoom in and mouse over these counties you will see more information on the potentially eligible blocks, including population, road miles (S1100, S1200, and S1400 categories only), and the name and number of the CMA in which the blocks are located. Further zooming in allows you to see the US Census tracts that contain these blocks. Image: Screenshot of the FCC’s Mobility Fund Phase 1 Potentially Eligible Areas interactive map. Click through to explore. H/T: GigaOm.

Attn: mobile journalists!

futurejournalismproject:

Mapping Where Your Phone Won’t Work

The FCC created an interactive map highlighting areas in the United States that lack 3G mobile access. 

The regions are eligible for Mobility Fund Phase 1 support, a $300 million fund that carriers can apply for to bring wireless broadband to neglected areas. 

Via the FCC:

This map shows the areas preliminarily identified as potentially eligible for Mobility Fund Phase 1 support. These areas are US Census blocks that lack 3G or better mobile coverage at the centroid of the block according to October 2011 American Roamer data and contain road miles in any of nine road categories. Counties that contain any of these blocks are shaded light gray, and as you zoom in and mouse over these counties you will see more information on the potentially eligible blocks, including population, road miles (S1100, S1200, and S1400 categories only), and the name and number of the CMA in which the blocks are located. Further zooming in allows you to see the US Census tracts that contain these blocks.

Image: Screenshot of the FCC’s Mobility Fund Phase 1 Potentially Eligible Areas interactive map. Click through to explore.

H/T: GigaOm.

(Source: futurejournalismproject)

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