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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed The Broadband Census of America Act . The legislation is intended to provide more detailed measurements of broadband availability in the United States. Currently, the FCC considers your entire ZIP code to have broadband access if a single house has anything above a 200Kbps connection.

The Broadband Census of America Act, approved by the House Tuesday, would require the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to collect information on the number of broadband subscribers in each postal ZIP code. It would also require the FCC to separate broadband service into speed tiers when it reports broadband availability in annual reports, instead of classifying everything above 200Kbps as broadband.
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... and why should a federal government be concerned? What are you paying taxes for?!
 
Finally someone brings the FCC into 4 years ago, now if we could only get them into the present and keep them there....
 
In my parents area they're one of like four people out of 5,000 who have either DirecPC or Wildblue (parents have WB. WB > DPC)

There's no real broadband there.

Thanks FCC for being useless, yet again.
 
I'm on dial up modem...no other choice available to me. I think I get around 26k because of the line quality too. Telephone company basically told me that I will never have DSL and the nearest cable line is buried over 2 miles away and I don't even know if cable internet is available on that. My wife and I do all of our web surfing at work.
 
mcravenufo said:
I'm on dial up modem...no other choice available to me. I think I get around 26k because of the line quality too. Telephone company basically told me that I will never have DSL and the nearest cable line is buried over 2 miles away and I don't even know if cable internet is available on that. My wife and I do all of our web surfing at work.
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I would move.

:p
 
IMHO, anything under 1Mbit/Sec should not even be considered Broadband these days...
 
ashmedai said:
Why must our government fail at geography? :confused:
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im :confused: also :rolleyes: . Um this is retard ofcourse at least one person in the zipcode is going to have cable modem*like i have cable modem and so does lots of other people in the neighborhood*... and isn't over 1mbps called broadband?? Wow.. whoever made that bill is a douche bag.
 
A bill thats worthless practically. Atleast one person in an area code will have directway or cable or dsl or some kind of internet faster than 200kbps. We need more competition.
 
Conker said:
A bill thats worthless practically. Atleast one person in an area code will have directway or cable or dsl or some kind of internet faster than 200kbps. We need more competition.
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Read again. The 1 house/area code was the method the FCC used to use to make it look as broadband penetration was higher. The purpose of the bill was to force the FCC to provide real figures instead of propaganda numbers.
 
Yes I'm happy with my 6mbps connection right now. It's the same price through AT&T with a phone line than I was paying for a 2mpbs cable connection a year ago by itself.

I think they need to hurry up and force fiber optics to the house as a standard instead of this shit AT&T is only beginning to do, fiber optics to the street then copper to the house. Verizon has it right with FiOS.
 
If only they could also take into account the shoddy ISPs out there, like mine.

Cable internet is the ONLY resource for broadband available. They have a complete monopoly on the local market. DSL is not an option (Fort Riley, KS. Can't even get a landline phone in the barracks). Ping time suck in the evening(thanks to routing through Charter's St. Louis hub), connection goes down at least twice a week, and download caps.
-10GBytes/384Kbit = $35
-25GBytes/3Mbit = $45
-50GBytes/5Mbit = $55
No higher download limit options. Overages are charged at $3/GB, and they do charge, hence my $400 bill a few months ago.

I can't wait till I get back to Colorado Springs in April. I'll gladly take that 1.5MBit DSL connection (16000ft from the CO, so no higher speeds are available). At least with that, the connection only ever went down twice in a year, and I have yet to see a DSL provider care about how much you download. (I can download 450GB/month on a 1.5Mbit connection, plenty enough for me).
 
Martyr said:
smallpenisband.

that will get the broadband adoption rates way up there.
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