Editorial standards
The rules for InternetService.ai guides: where facts come from, how each one is dated, how sure we are about availability, and how we handle money and mistakes.
Who is responsible
Provider and place guides built on our current template will name Pablo Mendoza as author and George Olfson as reviewer in the byline, with the published date and the updated date. Those guides are being rewritten, and none is published yet. Every guide on the site today is credited to the InternetService.ai editorial team.
Where our facts come from
We use primary sources and name each one, with the date we checked it, in the guide's source list. Our equipment guides are being brought up to this standard. The sources we use:
- FCC National Broadband Map. Providers report which technology they offer at each home and business. We cite the data date of the release we used.
- U.S. Census Bureau. Guides built on our current template use American Community Survey 5-year estimates for households and internet subscriptions, population estimates, and Census geography files for counties. Those guides leave out estimates whose margin of error is above 30%.
- The provider's own pages. Locations pages and product pages tell us where a provider lists service and what it calls its products. We name these pages as sources and do not link them as order paths.
- Regulators and official programs. FCC consumer guides and state broadband office documents, when a guide needs them.
We do not use third-party provider-comparison sites, review sites, forums or AI summaries as sources of fact, and we do not use anything that has no date.
In template guides, every fact carries a date
In guides built on our current template, each number sits next to its source and its date. On those guides, provider listings are checked again within 30 days, and Census and FCC figures stay until the next release replaces them. When a fact on one of those guides passes its date, the page marks it "Last verified" with the date, and we take it out of the page title, the description, the FAQ and the structured data until it is checked again.
How sure is each availability claim?
Availability evidence has five levels, and a guide never presents one level as another. Guides say only what the FCC map reports (level 2) and what the provider lists (level 3). Only the address check can reach level 4, and only when it is switched on.
| Level | What we may say |
|---|---|
| L1: ZIP estimate | Guides say nothing at this level. The ZIP code tool on our home page and on the Order now page shows an area estimate, labeled as an estimate and dated. We do not publish ZIP code pages. |
| L2: FCC-reported | The share of a place's homes and businesses where providers report a technology, with the FCC data date. |
| L3: Provider-coverage | That the provider lists the place on its own locations page, with the date we checked it. |
| L4: Provider-confirmed address | Only the address check reaches this level, and only when it is switched on. A guide does not claim it. |
| L5: User-confirmed orderable | We never say this. You confirm it when you place an order. |
When the address check is switched on, it returns the offers for a street address and unit. Our methodology explains the research behind the guides.
Prices, rankings and ratings
- Guides do not quote provider prices, fees or promotions. Those depend on the address and change often.
- When a guide works through costs, its dollar figures are made-up examples, not provider prices. Guides built on our current template put them in a box labeled "Hypothetical example".
- We do not call a provider or plan the best, fastest or cheapest unless the same sentence states the basis for the comparison.
- We do not publish star ratings, review counts or countdown offers.
Independence and compensation
InternetService.ai can earn compensation when a reader uses certain shopping links and a provider, retailer or partner credits an eligible action. Internet Near Me, Konecteaze and InternetProviders.ai are related properties. Links that leave this site for a retailer or a sister site's shopping or equipment page are marked as sponsored, and the advertising disclosure explains each path, including the address check and the InternetProviders.ai equipment link. Compensation never changes a fact, a level label or a source date on a guide.
How we use AI
AI tools help organize research, draft text and build the site. Guides built on our current template will name the author who is responsible for them and the reviewer who checked them. Until those are published, the InternetService.ai editorial team is responsible for every guide on the site. We do not claim hands-on product tests, customer interviews or measured provider performance unless we document how they were done.
Quality checks before a guide is indexed
Before search engines may index a provider or place guide, an automated check confirms that its facts have dated sources, that it is not a near copy of a sibling page, and that its structured data matches the questions on the page.
On wording, the check enforces two rules from this page: no dollar figures outside a labeled example, and no urgency phrases. It flags, but does not block, the words best, fastest and cheapest when the sentence gives no basis. We do not publish star ratings or review counts, and our release check blocks rating and review structured data on every page search engines may index.
A provider or place guide stays readable but is marked noindex until it passes the check and an editor admits it. Our other guides, including the equipment guides, are not yet held to the full check. An automated rule flags new failures in our release checks while we rewrite them.
Updates and corrections
A guide's updated date changes only when a fact changes or a meaningful part of the text is rewritten. To report an error, use our contact page with the page address, the statement you believe is wrong and your source. A correction changes the statement and its source, not only the date. More about the site is on our about page.