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Everything between the question and the connection.

Our work covers the full arc of a broadband effort: understanding where service is, deciding what to do about it, paying for it, building it, and making sure people use it. Every service is backed by Marco Map.

01

Broadband planning & strategy

County, regional, tribal and state plans that start from where service actually is and end with a plan people can carry out.

What we deliver

  • Community visioning and stakeholder engagement
  • Digital opportunity and adoption plans
  • Infrastructure and technology selection
  • Partner identification: providers, utilities, anchors
With Marco Map

Every location in your area, down to the hexagon and census block, compared with the neighbours your officials will be asked about.

02

Grant strategy & applications

Eligibility, scoring and the story behind them for ARC, federal and state broadband programs, from the people who have written and run them.

What we deliver

  • Eligible-area mapping and challenge support
  • Capital stacks and funding-source strategy
  • Application narratives, maps and exhibits
  • Where prior federal awards already reach
With Marco Map

Federal funding overlays (CAF II, RDOF, ReConnect, Community Connect, Capital Projects Fund) show where money has already landed before you ask for more.

03

Feasibility & network design

What it would take to reach every unserved home: fiber, fixed wireless or satellite, costed location by location.

What we deliver

  • Every-location feasibility studies
  • Fiber, fixed-wireless and LEO reach analysis
  • Capital plans and business-case analysis
  • Middle-mile and backhaul planning
With Marco Map

Terrain, canopy and tower data drive line-of-sight and reach models, so a technology choice rests on physics rather than a rule of thumb.

04

Program design & evaluation

Grant program design for broadband offices and funders, and independent evaluation of what a program actually delivered.

What we deliver

  • Grant program design, guidance and award agreements
  • Outcome and impact evaluation
  • Before-and-after coverage across FCC releases
  • Research on economic effects of deployment
With Marco Map

Eight semiannual FCC releases, June 2022 onward, measure change at every location, so an evaluation can show what moved and where.

05

Mapping & data analytics

The maps and numbers behind a decision, delivered in the formats your team, your GIS staff and your funders already use.

What we deliver

  • FCC Broadband Data Collection analysis
  • Availability challenges and speed-test evidence
  • Housing, business and enterprise unit counts from licensed Fabric data
  • Affordability of real advertised prices
  • Custom regions, dashboards and GIS layers
With Marco Map

Hexagon and census-block maps for every standard US geography, exportable as GeoJSON, KML, QGIS projects and offline dashboards.

06

Digital opportunity & adoption

Getting people connected once the network is there: skills, devices, affordability and the institutions people already trust.

What we deliver

  • Resident and business surveys
  • Computer, tablet and smartphone skills and online safety
  • Community technology hubs and anchor institutions
  • Telehealth, education and workforce applications
With Marco Map

Income, age, health and E-Rate data sit on the same map as coverage, so outreach goes where the need is.

07

For providers & electric co-ops

Market analysis, unserved targets and FCC filings for the ISPs and utilities doing the building.

What we deliver

  • Market and competitor footprint analysis
  • Unserved-location targeting
  • BDC availability and subscription filings
  • Grant partnership positioning
With Marco Map

Provider footprints at every FCC release, joined to location-level data, show the gaps a new build would close.

08

Community & economic development

Broadband as one part of a larger development picture, for CDFIs, foundations and local governments.

What we deliver

  • CDFI, New Markets and Opportunity Zone screening
  • Data-center community benefit analysis
  • E-Rate impact for schools and libraries
  • Disaster recovery and resilience planning
With Marco Map

Census tract eligibility, social vulnerability and hazard data line up with coverage for every geography you work in.

Rural LISC Broadband Planning Help Hub

Custom answers to specific local problems.

Through LISC's Broadband Planning Help Hub, part of the National Broadband Technical Assistance Marketplace, our team of senior consultants gives communities analysis and recommendations they can act on, whether the goal is attracting investment, lowering prices, building skills or expanding telehealth.

  • Infrastructure mapping and data visualization
  • Infrastructure and technology selection
  • Business case analysis and planning
  • Broadband capital stacks and funding sources
  • Partner identification of broadband and technology providers
  • Computer, tablet and smartphone skills and online safety
  • Community visioning and strategy
  • Technology applications that address community concerns

Who we serve

Built for the people who make broadband happen.

  • States & broadband offices
  • Counties & municipalities
  • Tribal nations
  • Councils of government & regions
  • ISPs & electric cooperatives
  • Foundations & CDFIs
  • Universities & school systems
  • Federal & regional commissions

Not sure which of these you need?

Most projects touch several. Tell us what you are up against and we will shape the engagement around it.

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