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You can and should challenge the map then. The FCC actually has a means to do that and does respond. Ideally get an email follow up stating speeds, frontier has a habit of refusing to create a paper trail.

https://help.bdc.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/articles/10476040597787-Ho...

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I did this about 18 months ago, and surprisingly, Spectrum came out and actually put a new line up my road. I'd asked them off and on for years to get broadband. Last time I'd been quoted 12k to cross the little creek they stopped at and service the dozen or so houses on my side. But for whatever reason, this time they did it for free (well, normal hookup costs) after I challenged them on the FCC site.

Glad to hear that. I've been fighting to get Frontier to service my neighborhood and the best they could tell me is that there is some hidden ticket and they have no idea what the real status is.

Frontier is labeled as a fiber provider for my address on the New York State PSC Broadband map and I made sure to provide some feedback to them about that claim.

Would love to have even just a single alternative option besides satellite internet. I'm only 10 miles outside of the downtown area.

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