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Daniel Frankel

Cable Lobby, Other Groups Push Back on FCC Bid to Quadruple the Definition of ‘Broadband’ to a Symmetrical 100 Mbps

Tunnel 'o data.

Cable lobbying group NCTA–The Internet & Television Association is asking the Federal Communications Commission to reject a proposal made by Google Fiber, ALLO and Ting to increase the government’s definition of “broadband’ as symmetrical 100 megabits-per-second speeds. 

”The arguments for such an approach are disconnected from the reality of broadband user experience, investment, and deployment and would yield results that have a variety of negative consequences,“ reads a letter filed earlier this week by NCTA to the FCC.

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