Studies
This CG Feasibility study had the most design location points.
What is the Antelope Valley Broadband Study?
This BDC Tech Code is the number assigned to Licensed By Rule technology.
What is Tech Code 72?
This document provides the rules, requirements, and steps necessary to apply for funding.
What is a NOFA / NOFO?
This document is created by a public or private entity to call for services and pricing to achieve a prescribed deliverable.
What is a Request for Proposal (RFP)? Will accept Request for Information (RFI) or Request for Qualifications (RFQ).
Empower Finley People, Deliver Operational Excellence, Build Financial Flexibility, Cultivate Future Markets.
What are our 3-year strategic imperatives?
These local institutions—such as schools, hospitals, and libraries—are often prioritized in broadband planning due to their community impact.
What are community anchor institutions?
These two primary types of GIS data represent features using shapes or grids.
What are vector and raster data?
This organization has provided funding for internet expansion in the form of grants or loans for both broadband and energy.
What is the USDA (will accept RUS)?
This process allows internet service providers to provide evidence and information showing where they currently service, typically before a grant round begins.
What is a Challenge Process?
Ethical Conduct, Customer Service, Integrity, Empowerment, Financial Responsibilty, and Dedication.
What are Finley's core values?
These were the three SEAGO Counties in Arizona where our team developed a study.
What are Greenlee, Graham, and Santa Cruz Counties?
This technology collects data about the Earth's surface from a distance, often via satellites or aircraft.
What is remote sensing?
This individual has become the poster child for wild expectations and new rules for the BEAD process.
Who is Howard Lutnick, Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce?
This grid allows an entity to methodically evaluate the submitted proposal to ascertain whom they will interview and/or select.
What is a scoring rubric?
April 16, 1953
What year was Finley founded?
This term refers to the minimum internet speeds required to qualify as “broadband” according to the FCC's 2023 definition.
What is 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload?
This type of map uses graduated symbols or color shades to represent data variations across geographic areas.
What is a choropleth map?
This symbol is provided by a broadband or energy expert to certify the infrastructure being installed to the required specifications outlined in the funding program.
What is a P.E. Seal?
This company recently partnered with Finley, allowing our team to analyze the cellular network for an urban client from three major cellular carriers.
Who is Ookla?
Fred Finley, Jr.
Who was Finley's founder?
This business model for broadband deployment involves a local government owning the infrastructure and leasing it to private providers.
What is an open-access network?
This storage unit is used in AGOL to track how much capacity an organization has consumed for hosting data.
What are credits?
These are common counts of fiber, including these denominations.
What are 244, 148, 96, 48, 24, and 12?
Finley provides distinct outreach to key stakeholders and funding agencies, providing market intelligence or information invaluable to advancing our clients' efforts.
What is advocacy?
Will also accept "What is a trusted advisor or confidant."
$42.45 billion federal funding initiative aimed at expanding high-speed internet access in unserved and underserved areas.
What is BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment)?