The Federal Communications Commission has made closing the “digital divide” a top priority, particularly on tribal lands. Despite this lofty goal, and millions of federal dollars theoretically available to subsidize building broadband networks, broadband access on tribal lands lags far behind other parts of the country, including other rural areas. According to the FCC, as of December 2016, 35.4 percent of those residing on tribal lands lacked access to fixed broadband compared to 7.7 percent of all Americans. A recent report by the General Accounting Office found that the method used by the FCC to measure broadband availability likely overstates the extent of broadband access in tribal areas. In other words, broadband availability is likely worse than the data would indicate.