Analysis of broadband affordability deemed “extraneous” by FCC chair.

The Federal Communications Commission is ditching Biden-era standards for measuring progress toward the goal of universal broadband deployment.

The changes will make it easier for the FCC to give the broadband industry a passing grade in an annual progress report. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s proposal would give the industry a thumbs-up even if it falls short of 100 percent deployment, eliminate a long-term goal of gigabit broadband speeds, and abandon a new effort to track the affordability of broadband.

Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act requires the FCC to determine whether broadband is being deployed “on a reasonable and timely basis” to all Americans. If the answer is no, the US law says the FCC must “take immediate action to accelerate deployment of such capability by removing barriers to infrastructure investment and by promoting competition in the telecommunications market.”

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    Every other country in the world is trying to make their population smarter and more connected, and we’re trying our hardest to make our people stupider with less access to information.

    Why have we allowed the most corrupt, despicable people to make decisions for us?

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    Say it with me people.

    Seperate infrastructure and service!

    If the companies responsible for laying cable and wires weren’t tied to a single brand we’d instantly break the monopolies by town that we currently have. They would also focus on maintaining the infrastructure and growing the network instead of the profits going elsewhere.

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    Thank God we’re also eliminating cheap solar panels from China. Who wants an energy source so unreliable. It literally didn’t even shine for most of the entire time. Sure it’s been lit for just a few million years but whatever are you gonna do when it eventually runs out of helium and hydrogen?

    I’d prefer the new ford trash diesel hybrid…just start the engine on gasoline, switch to diesel, then just dump your trash for that week in the back and wait for the big ass black plume to reduce yo just a healthy soot. It can get 23miles per trashcan!..sorry, 2.3 downhill miles. Isn’t it great? Mr.TrashyBurn!

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    As someone who has had download speeds above gigabit all throughout the 2020s so far (and for under $60/mo as well), it blows my mind that there are pcarts of the country that still don’t even have 10% of that.

    Like what I’m saying is that even cell phone towers can do multi-gig speeds these days FFS, so there’s no excuse even for rural areas to not have at least a couple of reliable gigabit options available, no matter where you are in the country.

    If they can figure out reliable 5G in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, surely they can install an antenna on grandpa’s farm and beam a 2.5Gbps signal directly to his rooftop. I mean my 1400Mbps line comes in through a 5G gateway sitting in my kitchen window sill and it has been just as reliable as fiber for me, even with a giant pine tree in the way blocking line-of-sight to the tower. ISPs need to stop making up excuses, and actually start investing those outrageous monthly fees they collect into better infrastructure.

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      What ISP do you have, $50 sounds great. My gb never goes beyond 450mbps but it definitely drops to sub 10mbps sometimes. And that’s $70/month. Which I thought I was doing fairly well after coming off how bad Spectrum was for me previously. (Mine currently is through the local power/water company)

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        This really depends on where you live. All broadnands are micro monopolies. I wish we’d pull a EU and split infrastructure and service. We’d get better speeds and prices everywhere

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        Verizon 5G Home Internet. The one with the big box that goes in your window, not the one with the smaller box that can go anywhere in the house.

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    From a Swede with gigabit internet: didn’t you Americans already give a lot of money to your ISPs to build fiber? Maybe time to demand a ROI?

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        Kinda hard when they’ve gone full mafioso and split up the country into territories so that we only have like one choice and have to be a customer. Because capitalism runs on no competition and monopolies, right?

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      that was ages ago, they took the money and never developed it, they started to do something last year with biden, but trump reversed. Just like with HIGH RAIL system in california, trump blocked it all.

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        I pay 639 SEK per month for 1 GB full duplex. And gigabit internet should be available in at least most of America, why else did you give away all that money?

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    A modem walks into a bar. The bar tender says:

    ‘W’ is 01010111.
    ‘e’ is 01100101.
    ‘l’ is 01101100.
    ‘c’ is 01100011.
    ‘o’ is 01101111.
    ‘m’ is 01101101.
    ‘e’ is 01100101.
    ’ ’ (space) is 00100000.
    ‘t’ is 01110100.
    ‘o’ is 01101111.
    ’ ’ (space) is 00100000.
    ‘A’ is 01000001.
    ‘m’ is 01101101.
    ‘e’ is 01100101.
    ‘r’ is 01110010.
    ‘i’ is 01101001.
    ‘c’ is 01100011.
    ‘a’ is 01100001

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          I don’t think that was what they were saying. They were bemoaning the fact that “3rd world” has become a synonym for “developing” or “poor” when technically it means countries that weren’t part of the cold war, although I think they might be tilting at windmills given it’s a distinction that’s been lost for at least three decades already.

          Apart from anything else, even if you keep its original meaning, it still works as a metaphor in the sense of a country losing superpower status.

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        He wants us to be exactly like Russia. Complete shithole company run by the oligarchy, who live lavish luxury lives.

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          Certainly seems that way.

          No regulations to support a reasonable standard of living for the peasants.

          Oligarchs mooching off everyone else.

          Americans have lost so much in the last few months, not only with the bullshit spending bill but just the erosion of the rule of law and the democratic process.

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    other country: lets bring in gig speeds Japan: futile we have and are testing terrabytes… America: i like cheese… govt cheese

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      Terabit per second speed is not impressive for backbone links. I could go to the office tomorrow and grab all the stuff needed to install one on our line through the alps, just by bundling 3 links of 400 Gbit/s with stuff we already have, and I’m working for a small to medium ISP.

      What you are likely referring to, is the 1 Pbit/s over 1800 km demonstration that NICT presented at the OFC this year. That’s impressive.