The official definition of “broadband” in the US has changed, regulators have announced. The minimum speed required to call a connection broadband will rise from 25Mbps to 100Mbps. That was part of a ...

When I started using the internet in the 1970s, my business used a 1.544 megabits per second (Mbps) T1 connection. At home, I was lucky to have a 1,200 baud connection that delivered 1.2 kilobits per ...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has redefined advanced broadband as having 25Mbps download speeds, up from 4Mbps, giving the agency new authority to pass rules to encourage deployment ...

The US Federal Communications Commission has quadrupled the minimum speed that it considers “broadband” internet to better reflect the way people use the internet today (and what internet service ...

After years of deadlocked votes, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is fully staffed and making progress. For the first time since 2015, the FCC has voted to increase the standards for what ...

The FCC voted to greatly increase its definition of broadband service, from the previous definition of 4Mbit down and 1Mbit up to the new standard of 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up. According to FCC ...