Government officials have long been frustrated by inaccuracies in the broadband connectivity data collected by the Federal Communications Commission, which estimates that 21 million Americans, or 6.5% of the population, lack access to high-speed internet.

New data, crowdsourced from an app that tests internet connectivity speeds, found that 65% of counties across the United States are averaging connection speeds slower than the FCC’s definition of broadband.

The findings were released Monday in a report by the National Association of Counties, which launched the mobile app last year to help fill in the gaps in the FCC’s connectivity data.
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