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inlawrev-27228	Jones, Alexandra	Broadband Expansion in Rural Indiana: Conflicting Federal and State Policies Delay Internet Access for Many Hoosiers	2023	23	.pdf	application/pdf	9604	540	54	Hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of people in Indiana lack reliable internet access to speeds of at least 25/3Mbps.44 Estimates of how many Hoosiers lack broadband internet range from 261,000 to 4.1 million and the enormous difference is due to different agencies reporting different data.45 While lack of internet access can occur statewide in rural, urban, or suburban areas, it is primarily a rural problem. B. Issue 2: Inaccurate Mapping Data 1. Discrepancies in Mapping Data and the Problems It Causes.—As previously mentioned, estimates of how many Hoosiers lack broadband internet vary wildly due to different agencies reporting different data.113 Organizations such as the FCC and Microsoft both track internet usage and speed by location, but their respective data does not match and is typically over two years old.114 The result is that, in 2019, the FCC reported about 261,000 Indiana residents who lacked access to internet meeting the minimum speed standard of 25/3 Mbps, while Microsoft found that 4.1 million Hoosiers—a significant portion of the 6.7 million total population—lacked access to internet that met this standard.115 Despite this disparity, the FCC has only used its own data to create the 29, 2020), https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2020/05/29/whos-not- online-in-america-today [https://perma.cc/9Z4J-76TL]. 111.	cache/inlawrev-27228.pdf	txt/inlawrev-27228.txt