Comment by jonathanmayer

Context: I teach at Princeton and used to work at the FCC.

Several comments suggest systematically comparing FCC data to what ISP websites say about availability. My research group did this! Here's the paper:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3419394.3423652

And here's a followup project by investigative journalists at The Markup:

https://themarkup.org/still-loading/2022/10/19/dollars-to-me...