House Dems: Broadband isn't broadband unless it's 2Mbps
This via Ars Technica. Apparently there is a move in the US to have the FCC redefine what broadband is. The discussion is that the definition needs to be increased from 200 kb to 2 Mb.
Sounds radical in a sense considering that a lot of ADSL high-speed runs at 1.5 Mb.
I've been using a service that runs at 256 kb lately, and it sure doesn't feel like high-speed especially when you're used to using a 5 Mb service as I've spent a lot of time doing.
I think there does need to be a concerted push to get most home broadband up to 25 Mb. Just odd that it's the government giving this a push in this case rather than consumers or the ISPs.
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