US FCC changes definition of broadband
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According to: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/139641-FCC-Changes-Definition-of-Broadband-Internet-Access
The FCC has changed the definition of broadband to include a minimum speed of 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up.Good move or just politicians playing for votes?
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@nadnerB said:
According to: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/139641-FCC-Changes-Definition-of-Broadband-Internet-Access
The FCC has changed the definition of broadband to include a minimum speed of 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up.Good move or just politicians playing for votes?
100% politics. The FCC has no domain over modifying a technical specification. This is a total lie. Broadband is defined by a signally bandwidth and has nothing to do with speed or data transfer. No IT person should use this terminology. We are a technical field and this is a purely falsified marketing term that they are using.
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It is similar to how LTE was re-labeled 4G because it was "fast" and never mind that it was 3G already. Apparently the idea of what a "generation" was was lost in just two generations!
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Political buttheads can't help meddling with things that they don't understand if they think that it'll garner more votes.
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@scottalanmiller said:
It is similar to how LTE was re-labeled 4G because it was "fast" and never mind that it was 3G already. Apparently the idea of what a "generation" was was lost in just two generations!
Marketing, it's all about the marketing. 4G sounds better than 3G LTE.
The LTE stuff wouldn't sell as well if they didn't label it 4G because the uneducated populace wouldn't understand. They still don't but that's another issue.
