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Radio News: FCC backs off lowering broadband standards

Jan 22, 2018 10:50 pm
Techcrunch reports that the Federal Communications Commission has backed off from lowering what constitues a broadband signal. Currently, the FCC considers a fixed signal with speeds of 25 megabits download and 3 megabits upload broadband. They were considering lowering that to a mobile signal with 10 megabits download and 1 upload, which would then allow them to claim that much of the country has broadband internet. Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat, was happy her Republican colleagues kept the current standards, saying “I’m glad that the FCC has backed away from its crazy idea to lower the broadband speed standard. But it defies logic to conclude that broadband is being reasonably and timely deployed across this country when over 24 million Americans still lack access.” Republican FCC head Ajit Pai seems to agree, recently proposing a $500 million project to expand rural broadband.
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