1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Rural Reasonable and Comparable Wireless Access Act of 2017 . 2. Availability of mobile and broadband services in underserved rural areas (a) In general Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commission shall promulgate regulations that establish a national standard for determining, for purposes of rural, insular, and high cost universal service support pursuant to subsection (b)(3) of section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 254 ), whether commercial mobile service, commercial mobile data service, and broadband internet access service available in rural areas are reasonably comparable to those services provided in urban areas. (b) Underserved rural areas The standard established under subsection (a) shall— (1) define a rural area as any area that is either— (A) a rural area (as defined in paragraph (1) of section 54.600(b) of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations); or (B) a service area (as defined in section 214(e) of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 214(e) )) served by a rural telephone company (as defined in section 3 of such Act ( 47 U.S.C. 153 )); (2) define a rural area as underserved , with respect to a service described in subsection (a), if service that meets or exceeds the standard established under such subsection is not available in the area; and (3) provide that a rural area will be considered underserved , with respect to a service described in subsection (a), if tests show that the service available in the area does not meet or exceed the applicable averages determined under subsection (c)(1). (c) Data from urban areas The Commission shall— (1) gather data on average signal strengths and average speeds of commercial mobile service and commercial mobile data service, and on average speeds of broadband internet access service, provided in the 20 most populous metropolitan statistical areas