| Title | 4Mbps Isn’t Fast Enough for “Broadband” - FCC Chairman | |
| Date | Friday September 19 2014, @08:56PM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
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| from the wake-me-when-it-is-implemented dept. | ||
Ars Technica brings us some good news out of the FCC - Sorry, AT&T and Verizon: 4Mbps isn’t fast enough for “broadband”
Contrary to what AT&T and Verizon would have you believe, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler today said 4Mbps is too slow to be considered broadband and that Internet service providers who accept government subsidies should offer at least 10Mbps.
Last week, we reported on AT&T and Verizon urging the FCC to abandon a proposal that would redefine broadband download speeds from 4Mbps to 10Mbps. If the standard is raised, ISPs that accept government subsidies to build networks in hard-to-reach rural areas would have to provide the higher speed. AT&T and Verizon argued that 4Mbps is good enough, but Wheeler said otherwise today at a hearing in front of the US House Committee on Small Business.
So a small bit of good news, but do these huge companies even deserve subsidies? Why not just tell them that "if you don't include rural America; we'll break you up?"
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