High Cost Tools
These tools provide access to public High Cost program data and program disbursements. For the full catalog of datasets, see High Cost Datasets.
Featured Tool
The Connect America Fund Broadband Map (CAF Map)
The Connect America Fund Broadband Map (CAF Map) is an interactive online map that shows the impact of the Connect America Fund (CAF) on broadband expansion to close the digital divide in rural America. The CAF Map displays the geographic areas that are eligible for CAF support, as well as the specific fixed locations where carriers participating in the program have built out mass-market, high-speed Internet service. The dataset reflected in the map includes address, latitude and longitude coordinates, carrier name, deployment year and minimum speeds offered for every location where CAF-supported service is available.
The information in this map comes directly from carriers, which submit broadband deployment data annually through USAC’s High Cost Universal Broadband (HUBB) portal showing where they have built out service using CAF funding. The current dataset is based on data certified in the HUBB to reflect deployment completed as of December 31, 2021. USAC independently verifies deployment to a random sample of locations reported in the HUBB each year to monitor carrier compliance with CAF build-out obligations.
High Cost Disbursements Search
This
tool displays information about total dollar amounts paid to carriers that
receive High Cost funding to provide voice and broadband service in rural
America. The tool contains payment information dating back to January 2003.
The High Cost detailed payment data
tool displays information about dollar amounts reflecting
audits and other prior-period adjustments paid
to carriers that receive High Cost funding to provide voice and broadband
service in rural America. The tool contains payment information dating back to
November 2011.