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Setting the Bar Low
by Andrew McCaskey
FCC Gets the Cable ISP Answer
The feedback is coming in for the Federal Communication Commission’s request for a definition of broadband. The cable trade association said that “The Commission should continue to look at maximum advertised speed rather than some measure of ‘actual’ speed,”
The FCC noted that “For example, advertised throughput rates generally differ from actual rates, are not uniformly measured, and have different constraints over different technologies” .
Comcast said “it’s out of our hands” and that ” the actual online experience of any particular consumer at any particular moment in time involves a wide range of factors, many of which are outside the control of the Internet service provider.” Given this, the cable ISP suggests that “the ‘provisioned’ speed
AT&T goes for the functional approach: For residential customers, that minimal set of applications should include the ability to exchange e-mails, participate in instant messaging, and engage in basic Web-browsing,” AT&T says. “It also should include the ability to engage in Internet-based education programs, interact with Internet-based government services, and participate in online energy, healthcare, and public-safety programs.”
If you are planning to aim low and hit, words like “participate in”, “Engage” and “Participate” are just the sort of linguistic cover that will allow for the sloppiest marginal coverage - not much better than the practice of coloring a county as served by broadband if there was one person in the county with some degree of connectivity above dialup.
The rest of the world is laughing and we are content with this sort of competitive posture. We will look back to the “good old days” when the US was #18 in broadband service. We are firmly on the charts at number 18 with a bullet. Fasy moving but unfortunately headed the wrong way.
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