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This part sounds neat > Section 254: Promoting Universal Broadband. Section 254 promotes the deployment and availability of communications networks to all Amer
by 0x09 12y ago
This part sounds neat
> Section 254: Promoting Universal Broadband. Section 254 promotes the deployment and availability of communications networks to all Americans, including rural and low-income Americans—furthering our goals of more and better broadband.
The FCC has been running pilots related to this under the existing Lifeline program, but nothing has materialized yet. Seems they're taking seriously the U.N. report that regarded Internet access as a basic human right.
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/low-income-broadband-pilot-program http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/low-income-broadband-pilot-p...
- ctdonath 12y agoNote that the FCC recently redefined "broadband" to >=25Mbps. Note that the term "broadband" has largely disappeared in last-mile ISP advertising. (I briefly talked to AT&T about it a la "I signed up for broadband, but am not getting anywhere close to 25Mbps", rep got vague about what was promised.) This all may provide interesting consequences. By redefining, suddenly large swaths of the country which have & are generally satisfied with 3-20Mbps connections are suddenly "without broadband" and subject to renewed FCC bureaucratic campaigns to bring them out of such third-world conditions.