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FCC Proposes 100Mbps Minimum Home Broadband Speed
oxide7 writes "The US Federal Communications Commission unveiled a plan on Tuesday that would require Internet providers to offer minimum home connection speeds by 2020, a proposal that some telecommunications companies panned as unrealistic. The FCC wants service providers to offer home Internet data transmission speeds of 100 megabits per second to 100 million homes by a decade from now, Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said."
Yeah, but behind what? How fast is fast enough? What are we trying to win? Frankly, I doubt that I'd ever make good use of 100Mbit myself, except in rare circumstances but maybe I'm outside of 'geek' norm (which is highly likely).
I find that the easier it's gotten for me to get massive amounts of content through the tubes and into my face, the more time I spend watching it, which can't be good. Like, I had meant to do a lot of stuff yesterday, which turned into watching old South Park episodes online, and next thing I knew, it was time to go to bed and none of my projects got done. When my roommate who works from home and has to connect via a VPN moves out soon, I'm going to drop down to a cheaper/less bandwidth plan from Cox, I think, because after spending all day at work in front of a computer screen, I really don't need any encouragement to spend more time in front of one at home than I already have.
THE FCC OVERSEES EVERYTHING FROM A FASCIST STANDPOINT AND NOT AN ENGINEERING (or their missing original "Mission Statement" STANDPOINT
Furthermore it's LONG PAST DUE, that all Commercial Broadcast TV Spectrum Must have their Public File made available online!
That's the problem in a nutshell. You can complain about the fascist journalist on deaf ears, and you can't shut the fuckers down when they are not in the "public interest."
let's fuckin be blunt