The FCC is “at a turning point” in...
The FCC is “at a turning point” in its mobile broadband testing program, and is looking to scale up the number of participants testing its smartphone app, officials told the measurement working group Thursday. The commission’s goal is to get…
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more diversity of handsets and locales. Carrier testing has proven the stability of the app, said CEO Alex Salter of SamKnows, which the agency has contracted with to conduct the tests. The next phase will be a 2-3 week period of testing by carrier employees, he said. The data collected during this phase will not be used for reporting speed measurements, but only for planning and development of the program toward its official launch. FCC Geographic Information Officer Michael Byrne gave a presentation on how to properly present the mobile data. “We want to create and publish things that are easily consumable,” he said, using browser-based interactive utilities. Anyone should be able to interact with the data simply and with no barriers to access, he said: The plan is to have an “ecology” around this data, which will be shared on GitHub, a Web-based hosting service for software development.