100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say

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100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say

Post by Admin » Fri Mar 05, 2021 2:28 pm

Pandemic showed that "upload speeds far greater than 3Mbps are critical."

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Four US senators called on the Biden administration Thursday to establish a "21st century definition of high-speed broadband" of 100Mbps both upstream and downstream. This would be a big upgrade over the Federal Communications Commission broadband standard of 25Mbps downstream and 3Mbps upstream, which was established in 2015 and never updated by former President Trump's FCC chair, Ajit Pai.

Today's letter was sent to FCC Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and other federal officials by two Democrats, one independent who caucuses with Democrats, and one Republican. Noting that "the pandemic has reinforced the importance of high-speed broadband and underscored the cost of the persistent digital divide in our country," they wrote... read more at arsTECHNICA
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