- (a) The corporation shall develop a high speed Internet service deployment and adoption initiative that includes the creation of a statewide geographic information system (GIS) of available telecommunications and information technology services, including high speed Internet service.
(b) The corporation shall map the availability of broadband service by census blocks established by the Bureau of the Census and depicted in the GIS. A map created under this subsection may:
- (1) include the percentage of households that have access to broadband service; and
- (2) use the Federal Communications Commission benchmark rates for broadband service to identify different speed tiers.
- (c) The corporation shall share the map created under subsection (b) and the GIS, including updates, with the Indiana Geographic Information Council (as referred to in IC 4-23-7.3-6 ) as a data layer to the statewide base map (as defined in IC 4-23-7.3-11 ).
As added by P.L.152-2009, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.13-2013, SEC.13.