said by nasadude :

If the FCC were to collect data that told the true story of broadband in the U.S., they would be forced by the 1996 telecom act to do something about it (other than de-regulating the telcos and passing regulations that hamstring competitors to the telcos and cablecos).

The current FCC has no interest in doing what's good for the consumer. I am interested to see what they end up doing to help collect better data, but I'll bet it won't help matters - they will either continue to hamstring data collection, or if better data collection happens, they will just ignore the data.