New minimum speed for US broadband connections
Alejandro Acosta
alejandroacostaalamo at gmail.com
Sun Aug 22 13:41:45 UTC 2021
Hello there,
The other day I was in a place with a very limited internet access
and I recalled this thread. Sometimes speed is important and many times
also the amount of data we transfer is too.
I wonder (sorry if there is and I'm not aware of) some kind of data
per month suggestion/definition?, 1GB, 10 GB, 50 GB, 100 GB?
I mean in the same way there is a minimum speed definition, there
could be also a minimum "data per day/month" definition", am I right?.
Thanks,
Alejandro,
On 27/5/21 8:29 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> What should be the new minimum speed for "broadband" in the U.S.?
>
>
> This is the list of past minimum broadband speed definitions by year
>
> year speed
>
> 1999 200 kbps in both directions (this was chosen as faster than
> dialup/ISDN speeds)
>
> 2000 200 kbps in at least one direction (changed because too many
> service providers had 128 kbps upload)
>
> 2010 4 mbps down / 1 mbps up
>
> 2015 25 Mbps down / 3 Mbps up (wired)
> 5 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up (wireless)
>
> 2021 ??? / ??? (some Senators propose 100/100 mbps)
>
> Not only in major cities, but also rural areas
>
> Note, the official broadband definition only means service providers
> can't advertise it as "broadband" or qualify for subsidies; not that
> they must deliver better service.
>
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