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.”
10 years from now USA is gonna be a 3rd world country with all these cuts.
It’s already a 3rd world country, has been for some time now.
From Europe it has already looked like a 3rd world country for at least a few years.
I wish someone would look up what “3rd World” means and stop conflating the unaligned movement with poverty.
You should look up how many people in the US are under the poverty line.
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.
Ya, the term “3rd world” has since become synonymous with poor or developing countries.
It’s not a correct or accurate term, but it’s still used.
it’s a distinction that’s been lost for at least three decades already.
The consequences of Cold War politics echo through to the modern day.
Trump was always obsessed with “shit hole countries”. Now he’s turning the US into one of them.
He wants us to be exactly like Russia. Complete shithole company run by the oligarchy, who live lavish luxury lives.
Rich people hate equality because that means they need to share.
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.
Not even gonna take 10 years. By the end of Spray Tan’s term the country is gonna be a complete toilet.
Assuming he doesn’t find a way to stay in office indefinitely.
We always have been a 3rd world country
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.
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?
Please don’t remind me.
I wish these companies would all just go bankrupt and die already.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?
There should be daily reminders until there are consequences imho.
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.
$100+ a month is normal, and gigabit internet is not available everywhere
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?
$67 USD
Get ready for your shitty internet to cost even more.
Didn’t ISPs just get tens of billions of dollars to expand high-speed connections to rural areas? For the second time?
No that was just free money we gave them.
What money? I guess they’ll need some in about… two years or so for rural broadband? That’s about time to buy some election influence again.
And they kept it all to buy themselves the latest private jets stocked full of cocaine and hookers. Again.
Yes! And I’m honestly very thankful for it. The federal grants are the main reason I have affordable gigabit-speed fiber internet way out in here in my rural county. Without it, I’d be stuck with 10mb DSL, crumby and expensive satellite based options, or very limited 4G/5G based hotspot internet.
Glad you’re one of the lucky ones. They only did a fraction of the amount of work they were supposed to and pocketed the rest. Enjoy it for the rest of us!
You sure that wasn’t rolled back to give that money to Jeff Bezos so he could have a really really expensive wedding?
Actually I remember reading a few weeks ago that BEAD money was cut. At the time I was thinking the Appalachians are gonna thank that one person who’s totally one of them and their friend, J.D. Vance, for that.
I live in the Appalachians. I’m confused about whom you’re referring to. I’d assume you mean Trump, but he’s not one of us. He’s not Appalachian at all.
I’m a bit confused, I explicitly wrote J.D. Vance, why would you assume Trump? :-D
He had the whole book taking up his Appalachian heritage didn’t he? The end of my comment was of course sarcastic, because all he’s doing is betraying rural America including the Appalachians.
Ah ok. I thought you were referring to two people, one vaguely and then that person’s friend, Vance. My confusion.
Ah I can see how it can be read that way! Sorry. Maybe I messed up the commas again. I’m perpetually confused because the rules are different in English and German.
English can be silly like that. If we were talking in person, I would be able to understand from the inflection in your voice by what you meant, but in text, it’s easier to misinterpret what was meant. It was my mistake.
I’m surprised US doesn’t have gigabit as a standard already. I’m upgrading to 10 gigabit next month here (Portugal)…
Much of it does, but as far as standard, I’m not sure.
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!
Broadband quality:
Great
Good
Decent
Whatever ✅
other country: lets bring in gig speeds Japan: futile we have and are testing terrabytes… America: i like cheese… govt cheese
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.
Neat. I’ve heard of backbones and T1-T3 lines. Butt that’s crazy, and makes sense.
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 parts 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.
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)
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.
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
Next up EPA switches to visual inspection of water sources for purity.
They’ll just have AI do it. Can’t afford real eyes.
The AI will end up costing 3x the amount it did before but the company is owned by some senator’s son so the agency will lock in a 20 year deal.
But…
Real eyes realise real lies…
It’s all in the rhyme there.
It’s funny that you think they’ll inspect it at all.
It will be left up to the states, and only blue states who actually care enough to fund their DEP will do anything.
Which would 100% lead to illness and death.
Honestly expecting them to defluoridate water any second now, citing quack sources, and will then be aghast at skyrocketing dental issues.
… Dental will still be a luxury insurance, of course.
Why the fuck would they care about dental issues? Those are elective bones that only rich people should have anyway.
plus untreated dental diseases, like caries, gingivitis, periconitis can lead to more serious infections. also the immense pain you would feel before it even gets “worst”
Why does everything have to be so fucking political?
Faster broadband is good. Who fucking cares what political party?
But corporations don’t want to spend money on customers, so they’d rather keep customers on slow speeds and charge the same price.
so they’d rather keep customers on slow speeds and charge the same price.
Be fair. The prices go up.
Well yeah, we all know it’s good. That’s why Republicans want to take it away.
Why does everything have to be so fucking political?
When will people who say shit like this wake the fuck up and realize that life is political?
Grow up and deal with it like everyone else, fucking cowards.
and deal with it like everyone else
no, not like that, that doesn’t do anything useful
Why does everything have to be so fucking political?
The problem with ignoring politics is that politics is never going to ignore you.
The wedge is already in place. They just keep pounding on it. This is 100% what happens when corporations and governments become one.
For rural communities to get higher speeds ISPs have to actually use the money the government gives them for increasing rural community internet speeds on increasing rural community internet speeds. If broadband is defined as “one house in the county has access to internet as fast as your grandparents had growing up” then they’ve already met their goal and they don’t need to spend any money and collect pure profit from government subsidies.
Biden thought that was bullshit and established policy to direct them to do the right thing. The current administration, however, is more than happy taking their checks to the back.
We should not be giving private entities cash without rigid metrics and timelines. In fact, we should claw back what we’ve given them.
In general I’d agree. Unfortunately, private entities and lobbyists don’t and they’ll pay politicians for the privilege of getting free money at the expense of the rest of us.
It’s especially funny how Republicans are against regulations because according to them, it stifles progress and innovation. So why are they against regulations that try to force progress and innovation?
Of course we know why, because it’s all a lie. They just want more money for the 1%. How there is even a single (non-1%'er) idiot left that votes for them is waaaay beyond me.
Keep poor people in the dark or they won’t vote for you.
Such great. So many again
Analysis of broadband affordability deemed “extraneous” by FCC chair.
The royal court is displeased with matters of the common peasantry
We will kill the effort with but a word
We will accept no further pleas for explanation
Sounds like bullshit coming down the pipes to try and distract us from the news that the commander in chief is a kiddy diddler
