Pablo Mendoza — Broadband Analyst & Co-Founder

Pablo Mendoza has spent 15 years studying how Americans actually get online. His career began by digging into FCC Form 477 filings — long before the agency replaced them with the more granular Broadband Data Collection (BDC) — and grew into a full practice of auditing ISP claims against the physical reality of fiber, cable, fixed-wireless, and satellite networks on the ground.

As Co-Founder of InternetNearMe.ai, Pablo leads the data pipeline that powers every provider ranking, coverage map, and address-level recommendation on the site. He designed the scoring methodology used to evaluate more than 50 ISPs across Texas and Frontier Fiber gig-speed territories, and he personally reviews every change to the underlying weights and confidence thresholds.

Pablo's core focus areas are FCC BDC data analysis, ISP comparison methodology, rural broadband research, and BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) policy tracking. He spends a large portion of his time in rural Texas counties — the places where the gap between advertised coverage and lived experience is widest — validating provider claims against real installations, real speed tests, and real customer reports.

The work is not glamorous. Most days involve cross-referencing government datasets, provider tariff filings, partner feeds, and user-submitted speed tests to find the exact moment a coverage polygon stops being accurate. That's the moment Pablo cares about — because that's where a real household gets a bad recommendation, and that's what InternetNearMe.ai exists to prevent.

Pablo's approach is data-first and source-traceable. Every fact published on InternetNearMe.ai — coverage, price, speed, contract term, or fee — must trace back to at least one primary source with a date stamp. No claim, including "best provider" statements, is published without an explicit comparison basis anyone can audit.

The primary sources Pablo relies on, in order of confidence, are: (1) FCC Broadband Data Collection location-level availability records, (2) direct provider websites and tariff filings, (3) verified partner data feeds, (4) internal lead and call outcomes from InternetNearMe.ai traffic, and (5) Search Console and analytics signals that reveal how users actually describe their needs. When two sources conflict, Pablo downgrades confidence and flags the page for re-verification rather than picking a winner.

Speed testing follows a fixed protocol: at least three independent runs, wired connection where possible, off-peak baseline plus peak-hour re-test, and documentation of the underlying gateway and tier. Real-world throughput is reported alongside advertised speed so readers can see the gap.

This methodology is documented publicly on the How We Review page and the Editorial Standards page, and it is audited on every content refresh cycle.