FCC chair wants to boost broadband standard to 100Mbps

My God is American internet awful

If you’re going to initiate a new rollout of tech, why rollout already out of date stuff? Just mandate fibre to the prem and 1 gigabit minimum from the start. It will take 15 years to complete anyway!

How is that not already the standard?

What about net neutrality? Does anyone remember net neutrality? I'd like that back please. I'd also like the opportunity to publicly flog Ajit Pai as long as we're dreaming.

Symmetric, right? Right?!

Didn't we already pay for the infrastructure?

Welcome to the United States, where consumers built the internet infrastructure that monopolies profit from and fight tooth and nail to prevent communities from providing high speed internet to its residents. Capitalism at its most corrupt: privatize profits and socialize capital costs and losses.

Gigabit symmetrical or GTFO.

I pay something like $110/mo for my symmetrical gigabit fiber line (plus static IP). This should be the standard, not 100Mbps.

100Mbps?? NOT ENOUGH

why just 100Mbps? why not 250? that’s still pretty simple for them to do. also: net neutrality, dammit!

$40 for 2Gb/s symmetrical FTW!

sometimes I really worry for the US

And at least 50 up?

I pay 30$ for 1Gb/s down, 250Mb/s up. It's usually around 40$ in the Czech Republic.

I'm paying $25 fo a 20mbps ADSL, but I only get 16down/1up due to the cable degradation.

This is pathetic.

Now they can steal all your data even faster

Gigabit fiber at $75 a month here. I would hate to be sub 100 mbps in 2023