Before this change, the FCC considered a connection with 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up to be broadband. That speed routed to a single device might be workable in 2024, but supplying an entire home with bandwidth from such a connection is going to be miserable. The FCC says its decision to ...
The Asus RT-AX57 is a compact AX3000 Wi-Fi 6 router with enough speed for a small family with up to gigabit internet speeds. The definition of "broadband" in the US gets a much-needed upgrade The news broke today in a document published by FCC News. In a PDF document titled "FCC...
the demand for high-speed broadband “adds up fast,” FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said. While many broadband providers urged the commission to keep its old definition of advanced broadband speeds, they tell customers they need to buy speeds of 25Mbps...
While high-speed Internet is becoming more and more common, household with really slow Internet are still out there, making do with whatever they have. The good part? While the FCC kept considering these really slow connections as "still broadband," that definition is changing now. The Federal...
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released its semi-annual report on broadband penetration in the U.S. The FCC's definition of high speed is at least 200 Kb/s upstream or downstream. As per the report, among 58.2 million households, 53.6 percent have access to cable broadband, ...
The FCC is looking to increase the speed definition for broadband. Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images The US Federal Communications Commission is looking torewrite the definition of high-speed broadband serviceto bring it in line with programs established by Congress to fund the build-out of broadband infr...
with a higher speed standard, the fcc is more likely to conclude that broadband providers aren't moving toward universal deployment fast enough and to take regulatory actions in response. during the trump era, fcc chair ajit pai's republican majority ruled that 25 mbps download and 3 mbps ...
As part of its 2015 Broadband Progress Report, the Federal Communications Commission has voted to change the definition of broadband by raising the minimum download speeds needed from 4Mbps to 25Mbps, and the minimum upload speed from 1Mbps to 3Mbps, which effectively triples the number of US ...
She also said the end goal is that every US resident should have access to affordable high-speed Internet, saying "anything short of 100% is just not good enough." (Source:fcc.gov) What's Your Opinion? Should the definition of broadband be revised? Is 100 Mbps a reasonable threshold? Sh...
The blue-colored areas are U.S. counties where less than 15% of people are using the internet at a 25Mbps download speed, which is the FCC's definition of high-speed internet. This data conflicts with the FCC's own broadband maps, which are known to be wildly inaccurate. That...