[nzlug] ./ - broadband isn't,broadband unless its at least 2Mbps

[Mathew Carley]

I'm sure most of you have already seen this, but, from Slashdot:

 "According to House Democrats, [0]broadband isn't
broadband unless its at least 2Mbps. The view of the House Subcommittee
on Telecommunications is that the FCC's data collection standards are
hopelessly outdated, and is proposing a number of updates to their
criteria. For one, they want 'broadband' reclassified to at least 2mbs,
up from 200kbps. Another requirement will change the FCC's outlook on
broadband availability. Just because one household in a zip code has
broadband access, that will not longer mean everyone in the zip code
does. 'The plan went over well with the consumer advocates who appeared
before the subcommittee. Larry Cohen, president of the Communication
Workers of America, said that the US is "stuck with a twentieth century
Internet" and that he would support increasing the "broadband" definition
to 2Mbps. Ben Scott of Free Press echoed that sentiment, suggesting that
the definition needs to be an evolving standard that increases over time,
which is in contrast to the current FCC definition; it has not changed in
nine years. "We have always been limited by the FCC's inadequate and
flawed data," he said.'"


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Links:
    0. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070517-house-dems-broadband-isnt-broadband-unless-its-2-mbps.html


I wish someone would say that to Telecom! Isn't broadband in NZ consider to be 256kbps or more? 

It's not a problem where I live. I have the option of 1,2,4,10 MBPS Cable, 1,2,8,12,24 MBPS DSL, 384k,512k,1M,2 MBPS GPRS (Cellphone), WiFi (usually around 2MBPS), or at work, a direct 100MBPS (1GBPS if I had a GigE card in my laptop) connection to Funet http://www.csc.fi/funet or Stadinetti https://www.stadinetti.fi/ :)


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