Group Expresses Concerns About Crowdsourced Data for FCC Broadband Map

North Carolina State University's Friday Institute for Educational Innovation urged the FCC to "balance various forms of crowdsourced data with service provider data" to ensure the new broadband maps are as accurate as possible. "The FCC may find it needs to analyze the different types and methodologies for crowdsource data to determine whether some data sets should be considered primary challenge data, not just supplemental data," the institute said in a letter posted Tuesday in docket 19-195. It raised concerns about potential errors in how crowdsourced data is gathered based on the various methods available and asked the FCC to treat it as "supplemental data set as opposed to formal, primary challenge data."