FCC should look to thousands of stimulus applications to define broadband - FierceBroadbandWireless

As part of the FCC's efforts to develop a national broadband policy, to be submitted to Congress in February, the commission has solicited input into what the definition of broadband should be. Not surprisingly, the country's largest broadband providers--AT&T, Verizon and Comcast, to name a few--argue that the FCC shouldn't change its definition of broadband at all, which seems like broadband Stone Age to many.

The FCC's current definition of broadband is a minimum of 768 kbps downstream and 200 kbps upstream to end users. These definitions were used to define speeds in broadband stimulus funding programs by the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) and Rural Utilities Service (RUS). Their reasoning was that the FCC has already utilized that standard because it is the most "technology-neutral option..."