The FCC has released an interactive map of areas where its Connect America Fund (CAF) broadband subsidies are available and where participating carriers have already used those subsidies to build out broadband service to fixed locations.

The FCC has gotten criticism from Capitol Hill over its lack of good data on where broadband is and isn't.

CAF is the universal service fund program to migrate advanced telecom subsidies from traditional phone service to high-speed broadband in areas that are too expensive, which usually means remote, rural areas, to justify private-capital buildouts. Carriers bid on the money then roll out the service with some FCC stipulations about speed and timing.

The money goes to both fixed and mobile, and must be priced at rates reasonably comparable to urban areas.