FCC: two thirds of US doesn't meet new broadband minimum

According to a new report by the Federal Communications Commission, 68 percent of Internet connections in the U.S. that are called "broadband" by their service providers fail to meet the minimum technical requirements that define "broadband."

Translation: More than two-thirds of Americans who are paying for what they think is broadband are getting ripped off. It's no different than buying a carton of eggs at the supermarket and then discovering only 10 eggs inside. Except most consumers would get more upset about the eggs because they can count. Few can readily determine if their "broadband" connection is failing to deliver broadband speeds.

You can read the FCC's 87-page report here (though it might take a little while to download since there's only a one-in-three chance that you actually have broadband). The gist of it, though, is this: The agency's minimum requirements for a connection to be accurately defined as "broadband" is 4Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream.

And guess what? Out of more than 133 million presumably broadband connections in the U.S., more than 90 million fail to meet the minimum standard. Even more outrageous, 58 percent fail to reach download speeds of 3Mbps, which is like getting only eight or nine eggs in your carton.

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