National Hex Toolkit (2H 2026)

National Hex Toolkit (2H 2026)The National Hex Toolkit is a broadband planning tool enabling ISPs and state broadband offices to exploit the latest available FCC data for network planning. It also enables the user to distinguishing between served or funded, underserved and unfunded, and unserved and unfunded in a BEAD framework. It reflects the May 27th, 2026 release of FCC BDC Fabric v8 coverage data, reflecting networks nationwide as of 12 31 2025. In 2026 states will receive

Pre-Engineering Introduction)

Geographic Areas:

It does not include an exact longitude / latitude because these details have not been released to the public by the FCC without a restrictive third-party license

See your Widelity representative for details

The new BEAD performance requirements expose large portions of the United States as failing to meet minimum broadband performance requirements

25Mbps/3Mbps

It further visualizes each of the component populations (per specific NTIA definitions):  low-income households

BEAD or CPF)

It also identifies the presence by speed category of:  fiber

the District of Columbia

It also allows the user to add boundaries or custom data layers or to introduce custom logic

It also includes ZCTA data for the two most common qualifying criteria (SNAP and Medicaid)