FCC: Please Define Broadband > Re-defined broadband

reply to openbox9

Re: Re-defined broadband

That's why I suggest defining a scalable, robust, and common infrastructure, not throughput. People around this forum like to trot out the interstate highway system when a national infrastructure comes up for discussion. I don't believe a roadway is defined as two lanes, or three, four, etc. While planning the highway system takes into account the number of lanes required (bandwidth) given current and projected traffic patterns, it also lays out common standards and guidelines for expansion of additional lanes and new roads. Please convince me of a good purpose of defining throughput in a "broadband" definition.

So that they can't advertise providing "broadband" without actually providing "broadband"?

And that would be about the last reason that I think we should waste time trying to define something. If we stop trying to define it, then it won't matter how it's advertised. Besides, most advertisements that I see are for "high speed internet access, at up to xx mbps".