The Definition of Broadband Matters Greatly
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/definition-broadband-matters-greatly/As the Federal Communications Commission creates a National Broadband Plan for the United States, it will have to decide whether to revise its definition of broadband. On one side, ILSR and others demand a robust definition to encourage greater network infrastructure investment. On the other, telecommunications companies want to keep the existing definition so they can claim they serve nearly everyone.
In all the wrangling over how we should define broadband, I wanted to step back and remember why the definition itself is so important.
