ATT says definition of broadband should not include gaming, streaming video | Techgeist

As part of the American government’s $7.2 billion plan for broadband stimulus, the FCC has had an ongoing debate in defining broadband. The sort of weak initial definition is at least 768 kbps downstream, which isn’t great, but it’s enough. AT&T, however, is now saying that the FCC definition of broadband for the purposes of stimulus should not include gaming. According to AT&T,

The pressing concern is not the ability to engage in real-time, two-way gaming, but obtaining meaningful access to the Internet’s resources and to reliable email communications and other basic tools that most of the country has come to expect as a given...