Thursday, August 27, 2009

Attention broadband providers: There's gold behind that demarc point - FierceTelecom

There's been a lot of clamoring lately around how the speed of broadband should be defined in the U.S., and according to a Wall Street Journal article, the FCC is looking for clarity on how to define broadband as it drafts its new broadband plan for Congress.

Previously, the FCC had defined "high-speed Internet" as a service that could deliver, gasp, 200 Kbps. Last year, the FCC revised its definition of "basic broadband" to be a minimum 768 Kbps to 1.5 Mbps...