Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.

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Give us the fiber that the taxpayers already payed for!

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Amen dude, over $500 billion after inflation paid for nationwide fiber, and telecom companies just pocketed that shit. We should’ve been at 500mb down, 250 up since 2015.

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Yes please!

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I’m pretty sure when they upped it to 25mbps a few years ago it was a wildly outdated figure at that time. 100mbps is more reasonable but still pretty bad for “high speed broadband.” Hopefully something good comes out of this but I won’t hold my breath.

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What would be ideal is forcing ISPs to lay fiber with the money they’ve already been given, or give back every cent they received for it. Their choice.

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10Mbps down was my ADSL connection in 2007. Brings back memories!

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Sure isn’t! But I’m only getting 12M here in the boonies. I guess high-speed internet is one of those things you can’t try in a small town.

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8M here, which is a dream compared to the 0.5M I use to have a few years ago.

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0.5M would be utter hell for streaming services. It would literally take 48 hours to watch 48 Hours.

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Starlink and soon Amazon. I get 100/10 regularly on starlink. It’s not great but it’s quite usable.

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I got fiber in a my rural small town and funny enough i have more choices here compared to when i was living in a large city and only had one choice…

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Pfft, an evaluation of prices

“Yep, theyre pretty high. Carry on”

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