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FCC refines "broadband" as 25/3

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    #2
    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    We never even adopted the 4/1 spec or else the NBS was a lie.

    No Mobile system can do a minimum 4/1


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    clohamon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,765 ✭✭✭clohamon


    ardmacha wrote: »
    http://www.zdnet.com/article/fcc-just-tripled-the-number-of-us-households-without-broadband

    "The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to reclassify "broadband" as serving households with download speeds of 25 Mbps, and 3 Mbps up. That's an increase from 4 Mbps down to 1 Mbps up under the old rules"

    Hopefully this idea will spread.

    Well it hasn't spread across the atlantic yet. This government is nearly 4 years old and it still hasn't settled on a definition for Next Generation Access, never mind delivering it. The definition of 'basic' broadband availability is having a satellite supplier.

    In the UK, 24 Mbs isn't just 'broadband' or even 'fast broadband'; it's 'super-fast broadband'.

    It doesn't really matter whether you try to define speeds (fast, superfast, ultra fast etc) or technologies ('fibre-powered' 'e-fibre' etc). As soon as the advertising men and spin-doctors get to work it all becomes meaningless anyway.


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    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,469 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    clohamon wrote: »
    It doesn't really matter whether you try to define speeds (fast, superfast, ultra fast etc) or technologies ('fibre-powered' 'e-fibre' etc). As soon as the advertising men and spin-doctors get to work it all becomes meaningless anyway.

    In the US the FCC definition of broadband is a big deal as it has a big effect on the subsidies companies can get from the government.

    Nothing stopping companies continuing to sell <24mb/s ADSL and calling it whatever they want. But with this new FCC definition they get no subsidies fro mthe government and that is a big deal for the ISPs


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