FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric From 25Mbps to 100Mbps

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A 4x increase for download and a 7x increase requirment for upload.

That's a pretty solid improvement, honestly. They also have plans on whne to increase it to 1Gbps down/500Mbps up, so it seems like they are taking it seriously.

It’s long overdue and gigabit should be standard

It is long overdue, as the last update was 2015, when a democrat was President. The GOP refused to do it, and it took some time to seat a new FCC head due to Republican obstruction.

Gigabyte is coming, just not yet. This is a fine incremental step.

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my third world country's internet has a minimum of 100mbps on most internet plans in the cities.

100mbps in the supposed best country in the world is shit, no matter how higher it is than 2003 standards.

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