FCC more than quintuples the legal definition of 'broadband'
04 Feb 2015 • engadget.comIt used to be that a paltry 4 Mbps down and 1 Mbps was all it took for an internet connection to be considered “broadband,” but the Federal Communications Commission has just flipped that definition on its ear. FCC commissioners voted 3-2 in favor of upping the broadband threshold, and pretty dramatically too: Now service providers will have to offer speeds of 25 Mbps down/3 Mbps up if they want to apply that label.
It’s a beginning. Disappointing that this almost didn’t even happen though (3 vs 2).