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."

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Not without significant infrastructure change...

[Logical Zebra]

100 Mbps? Does the FCC not realize that 99% of all residences only have copper cabling to them (either twisted pair or coax)? It is impossible to get 100 Mbps out of such a transmission medium over any meaningful distance. The only solution to this would be to overbuild the entire telecommunications infrastructure with fiber optic cable. Phone and Cable companies aren't going to like that--they already have billions of dollars invested in the current copper plant out there.

Is 100 Mbps feasible? Yes. Is it feasible by 2020? Yes, but certainly not to everyone.

Re:That would be all well and good

[BJ_Covert_Action]

consumers have (in the USA) representatives and senators.

We do? I must have missed the news letter. Here in my state (California) our representatives and senators are bought and paid for by either hollywood or the various eco-interest groups. It would be nice to have a representative or senator or something that could and would act on my behalf. /sigh Who am I kidding? I mean, this is America. A man can dream though, right? A man can dream....