{"id":31817,"date":"2024-03-15T08:52:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T03:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/the-fcc-has-finally-decreed-that-25mbps-and-3mbps-are-not-broadband-speed\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T08:52:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T03:22:25","slug":"the-fcc-has-finally-decreed-that-25mbps-and-3mbps-are-not-broadband-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/the-fcc-has-finally-decreed-that-25mbps-and-3mbps-are-not-broadband-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"The FCC has finally decreed that 25Mbps and 3Mbps are not \u2018broadband\u2019 speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/9RW2HZkvg1gWK50oIr3oQjYHVN4=\/0x0:3000x2000\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/73208182\/VRG_ILLO_4341_American_Ethernet.0.jpg\" \/><figcaption>Illustration by Grayson Blackmon \/ The Verge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"Ekor9z\">\u201cI think our new threshold, frankly, should be 100Mbps. I think anything short of that shortchanges our children, our future, and our new digital economy.\u201d That\u2019s what FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel argued nine years ago \u2014 now, it\u2019s finally happening. <\/p>\n<p id=\"xs9o2r\">Today, the FCC has changed its definition of \u201cbroadband\u201d to mean download speeds of 100 megabits per second and upload speeds of 20 megabits per second. It had been stuck at 25Mbps\/3Mbps since 2015. As recently as 2021, outgoing FCC chairman Ajit Pai claimed we still didn\u2019t need more than that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-left c-float-hang\">\n<aside id=\"bDSHco\">\n<div data-anthem-component=\"readmore\" data-anthem-component-data=\"{\"stories\":[{\"title\":\"What\u2019s wrong with US broadband?\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/11\/17\/23460070\/internet-bill-broadband-survey-data-consumer-reports-cost\"},{\"title\":\"The government is helping Big Telecom squeeze out city-run broadband\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23763482\/municipal-broadband-biden-internet-funds-telecom-lobbying\"},{\"title\":\"We need to fix America\u2019s internet\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22177154\/us-internet-speed-maps-competition-availability-fcc\"}]}\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"oCcPZ7\">These definitions matter, because they let the FCC report whether it\u2019s failing or succeeding to close the broadband gap \u2014 and how much to regulate (or throw money at) broadband providers to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n    Continue reading&hellip;\n  <\/p>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Illustration by Grayson Blackmon \/ The Verge \u201cI think our new threshold, frankly, should be 100Mbps. I think anything short of that shortchanges our children, our future, and our new digital economy.\u201d That\u2019s what FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel argued nine years ago \u2014 now, it\u2019s finally happening. Today, the FCC has changed its definition &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}