Guidelines for Broadband Data Submission         

The Broadband Data Request will be sent to California broadband providers on or before March 1st of each year, outlining any instructions or changes in our data collection process. Please submit your data in accordance with the data request instructions by the submission deadline.  

A separate Voice Data Request for California Voice provider's was sent on April 3, 2020. Please submit your data in accordance with the data request instructions by the extended submission deadline of June 1 for your voice data.    

Pursuant to Public Utilities Code §§ 311, 314, and 716, inter alia, and Decision D.16-12-025, all communications providers certificated and/or registered with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), that also file Form 477 with the Federal Communications Commission, shall submit annually to the Communications Division by April 1st, broadband subscriber and deployment data at a Census Block level as of the prior calendar year’s end in a form as designated by Communications Division Staff.  Only Mobile providers may submit broadband subscriber data at the Census Tract level.  All providers may fulfill the subscriber reporting requirement by submitting subscriber data at the more granular street address level.

Starting in the 2019 data collection cycle, Fixed Wireless providers are no longer required to submit tower location information. They are required to submit broadband Deployment data at the Census Block level.

Year	Data current as of ...	CPUC Deadline for Submission
2020	December 31, 2019	April 1st, 2020

Who Should Submit Data? 

• Providers subject to Decision D.16-12-025 must submit broadband data
• Facilities-based providers only (Partial Resellers should submit data on broadband they provide from facilities they own; however  pure resellers should not submit data)
• Providers with broadband speeds greater than 200 Kbps, in at least one direction, that can provision new requests for broadband services within an interval that is typical for that type of connection.

Where and How to Submit Data?

• Via Secure FTP:  please use our Secure FTP link 
• Via email (3 MB or less only):  broadbandmapping@cpuc.ca.gov 

Files and Formats for Data Submission

Please select the following files and formats appropriate for your technology type.

For Wireline & Fixed Wireless Broadband Providers

• Fixed Broadband Deployment: Data Format  |  Deployment by Census Block Workbook
• Fixed Broadband Subscribers by Address: Data Format  |  Subscribers by Address Workbook
• Fixed Broadband Subscribers by Census Block: Data Format  |  Subscribers by Census Block Workbook  

For Mobile Providers

• Mobile Broadband Deployment: Data Format  |  Mobile Deployment Shapefile
• Mobile Subscribers by Census Tract: Data Format  |  Mobile Broadband Subscribers Census Tract  

For Residential Fixed Broadband Providers

•  Price of Fixed Residential Broadband Service: Price of Service Template

For Voice Data

• Fixed Voice Deployment By Address: Data Format  |  Deployment by Address Workbook
• Fixed Voice Deployment by Census Block: Data Format  |  Deployment by Census Block Workbook
• Fixed Voice Subscribers by Address: Data Format  |  Subscribers by Address Workbook  
• Fixed Voice Subscribers by Census Block: Data Format  |  Subscribers by Census Block Workbook  
• Mobile Voice Deployment by Census Tract: Data Format  |  Deployment by Census Tract Workbook  
• Mobile Voice Subscribers by Census Tract: Data Format  |  Subscribers by Census Tract Workbook  

Questions?

Please contact us at broadbandmapping@cpuc.ca.gov