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A block counted as served
The federal record of who can get a connection was assembled for two decades from a question that could not produce a wrong answer. These pieces cover the rule itself, the address-level fabric that replaced it, and what it actually takes to get one location corrected.
- A block counted as served if one house in it could be servedThe old Form 477 census-block rule is the single reason American coverage maps overstated availability for a decade.
- Claimed coverage, against locations a technician could actually connectThe rebuilt fabric maps individual serviceable locations, and the difference between the two counts is the story.
- Who challenges a mapThe challenge process lets a household or a county contest a claim, which is slow and is why the maps kept changing.
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