Third Party Data Sharing

The data we collect is helpful for consumers, the FCC, and others interested in understanding mobile broadband in the United States.

We share your mobile broadband performance information in four ways.

We may share your mobile broadband performance information within the FCC to write our Measuring Broadband America Report on Mobile Performance and to support our development of broadband policy.

We share your mobile broadband performance information with our contractor who manages the measurement program, with partners who support the program and architecture, and with partners supporting our analysis or contributing peer reviews.

We will publish aggregated averages and minimally necessary datasets that support our review of the statistics that we determine pose very low risks to your privacy, including:

Aggregated Data

We plan to publish averages and other aggregated statistics that describe important features of mobile broadband performance. These highly aggregated statistics pose very low risks to your privacy.

Processed Coarsened Raw Data

We plan to publish only the anonymous data in a processed and coarsened form that supports the averages and other statistics that we publish in our reports. Prior to release of this data, the FCC and researchers skilled in the field of statistics and computer science will identify patterns in the raw data that could be exploited to compromise your privacy. If we find concerns, we will take steps to address the risks by making the time, location or other information less specific, limiting the combinations of information we release, or deleting information.

We may share mobile broadband performance data collected by this Application subject to legitimate requests by law enforcement or where otherwise required by law or regulation.