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      "note": "Area partitions are not additive: total already contains urban and rural, and tribal and nontribal. Exactly one partition is reported."
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        "note": null
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        "note": null
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        "note": "Former FCC fixed broadband benchmark, adopted 2015."
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        "note": null
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        "units": 48020,
        "technology": "Any Technology minus Any Terrestrial",
        "caveats": [
          "Satellite reaches almost everywhere, so a headline that includes it approaches 100% nearly everywhere and stops distinguishing places.",
          "Availability is not capacity. Satellite constellations share bandwidth across all subscribers in a cell, so advertised speed is not a guarantee the whole reported population could be served at once.",
          "Latency, weather sensitivity, data policies, and equipment cost differ materially from wired service, and none of them appear in this dataset.",
          "Funding and policy programmes frequently treat satellite-only locations as unserved for their own purposes. Check the programme's own definition rather than this headline."
        ]
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      "symmetric_note": "The published summary reports six fixed download/upload pairs and no symmetric tier above 0.2/0.2 Mbps, so symmetric service cannot be measured from it directly. Upload capability is shown through the highest tier, which requires 100 Mbps upstream, and fiber is reported separately because it is the technology that typically delivers matched speeds. A symmetric share is derivable from the FCC location-level availability files, which carry each location's advertised upload speed, but that product is roughly 973 million rows per vintage and is not ingested here."
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        "vintage": "2025-12-31",
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        "retrieved_at": "2026-09-28T18:01:03.271Z",
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