| reply to romulusnr
Re: Washington Monumenting RTFA.
Free Press's letter to the FCC is pretty clear here -- under current law, Congress defines broadband as, "as having the capacity to transmit data to enable a subscriber to the service to originate and receive high-quality voice, data, graphics, and video.”
Free Press said, OK, assuming h.264 720p video, that is about a minimum of 5mbps -- if you must put a bps tag on it. But they said it should be evolving, and always tied to what applications can be used.
What people here are overlooking is, the FCC asked how to define broadband for the purpose of the national broadband "plan." Plan being something you shoot for in the future. This has nothing to do with the current stimulus, which IIRC, Free Press said anything above 768k should qualify to be considered for stimulus funding, if nothing else was possible. |
