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Connected Tennessee is not a broadband provider. We do, however, work to accelerate the expansion of broadband to every corner of Tennessee through public-private partnerships. If broadband is available in your area, Connected Tennessee will be able to refer you to the existing broadband providers. If you would like broadband, but it’s currently not available in your area, let us know. Your information is valuable to us as it helps us to more effectively map broadband availability throughout the state.
 

Broadband service provides a higher speed of data transmission, which allows more content to be carried through the transmission “pipeline.”  Broadband provides access to the highest quality Internet services, which includes but is not limited to: electronic healthcare, online and distance education, videoconferencing, Voice over Internet Protocol (Internet phone), streaming media and interactive services. Many of these current services require the transfer of large amounts of data which are painstakingly slow to download with a dial-up service.

The term broadband commonly refers to high-speed Internet access often, both terms are used interchangeably. The FCC currently defines basic broadband service as data transmission speeds exceeding 768 kilobits per second (Kbps), or 768,000 bits per second, in at least one direction: downstream (from the Internet to the user’s computer) or upstream (from the user’s computer to the Internet).

Connected Tennessee has developed a geoprocessing tool that analyzes Census Block demographics with the aggregated broadband service overlay. Rather than assume that all households are evenly distributed throughout the entire area of a Census Block, the assumption is made that households are more likely distributed along the roadline network; while this is not always the case, it is the more likely standard.

We rely on citizen feedback to verify the accuracy of the broadband inventory maps. Please send us your feedback on the following form: http://www.connectedtn.org/broadband-inquiry. We respond to all inquiries and incorporate relevant information on an ongoing basis.