Why DC’s Definition of High-Speed Internet No Longer Works
Federal lawmakers are seemingly always ready to spend tens of billions of dollars to bring high-speed internet access to rural America. That is not necessarily a bad thing. But in a post-COVID world in which the internet plays an ever-increasing role in daily life, DC's definition of high-speed internet no longer works.
Government standards created by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2015 put the threshold for high-speed internet at 25 Mbps download speed and 3 Mbps for ...