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Powering Rural Broadband Decisions with CostQuest’s® Broadband Fabric

As broadband stakeholders accelerate deployments across the country, precision matters. In addition to providing the Location Fabric data for the FCC’s Broadband Map and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA’s) Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, CostQuest also creates industry-specific Fabric datasets that tie network cost, competition information, service availability, NPV, demographic data and more to each Broadband Serviceable Location. Through a partnership with NTCA, CostQuest is offering NTCA members discounted pricing on all CostQuest Fabric data.

CostQuest’s Broadband Fabric datasets provide definitive, location-level insights that help NTCA members plan, build and operate broadband networks efficiently from start to finish. The Broadband Fabric includes the coordinates and addresses of all Broadband Serviceable Locations (BSLs), and it is tied with other essential insights at the point level, such as network cost, service availability, competition, demographics, and more. Having cost and competitive data at the household level allows providers to prioritize investments, mitigate risk, and improve efficiency of build and spend, putting those precious dollars to good use.

Discount to NTCA members

Through this partnership with NTCA, CostQuest is offering NTCA Members: 

  • Broadband Fabric Location Data and additional market intelligence data layers, such as network cost (Fiber & Fixed Wireless), BDC service availability, demographics, and more for each Broadband Serviceable Location.
  • 10% discount off list pricing.

How CostQuest has worked with NTCA

CostQuest is working with NTCA on a process to collect updated data on network and operating costs from NTCA members that could help inform future improvements to the Alternative Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM). This collaboration supports better cost modeling inputs and ultimately more effective funding and deployment outcomes for rural providers.

Why the Broadband Fabric matters

  • Built for accuracy and action: The Fabric is the backbone for the FCC’s Broadband Maps and NTIA’s BEAD program, giving providers a trusted base layer for eligibility, design, and funding strategies.
  • Market intelligence at the location level: Access modeled network costs, competitive presence and NPV insights – aligned to each serviceable location.
  • Spatially focused, actively developed: CostQuest’s Fabric ecosystem is focused on structure-level location precision and designed for easy integration with applications and business systems.

TrueVerra - CostQuest's Data Marketplace

Instantly access the Fabric data you need to power successful broadband expansion, business planning and operations strategies with confidence – on the TrueVerra, Data Marketplace. TrueVerra delivers more than just data – it provides structured, validated intelligence for organizations that rely on precision to drive decisions. Whether optimizing broadband infrastructure, assessing regulatory compliance or evaluating funding strategies, the right data transforms uncertainty into informed action. Search by county, and easily acquire the data that best fits your project and build your data stack.

A smarter path forward for NTCA members

CostQuest’s Broadband Fabric delivers accurate and granular data that aligns operational decisions with funding realities, network cost modeling, and on-the-ground serviceability. With exclusive NTCA member pricing and a shared commitment to advancing rural deployment, members can invest smarter while serving communities better.

To learn how the Broadband Fabric Datasets can enhance your projects, please email [email protected] for more details and pricing information for your counties and states you’re interested in.

You can also explore sample data and pricing by county on CostQuest’s Data Marketplace, at TrueVerra.io.


About CostQuest

CostQuest Associates® is an employee-owned broadband consulting firm, data provider, and SaaS provider serving clients in both the public and private sectors. We are internationally recognized as the leading experts in network economics, profitability analysis, asset valuation, policy, mapping and data science. We work with businesses and governments of all sizes to help them make effective and confident business planning, operations, policy, and reporting decisions that distribute resources efficiently. We’re most known as the official Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric data provider for the FCC’s Broadband Data Collection (BDC), NTIA’s BEAD, and other federal programs. CostQuest is the trusted cost modeling and grant management expert that both Federal and State Governments depend on to efficiently distribute and track broadband deployment funding across the U.S. Learn more on their website.