said by Z80A:A complete waste of taxpayer dollars.
Actually, this is probably incredibly cheap for the FCC to do. This uses NDT (free and open-source software) and Measurement-Lab (a free platform). It also uses Ookla (but I don't know if the arrangement is the same). That's not to mention that it's web based (free protocols and usually free software) and crowd-sourced.
said by Z80A:They could get far more complete data by browsing speetest.net's results.
They could, but now they're also contributing to that dataset. That's even better.