Tons of AT&T and Verizon customers may not have "broadband" on Thursday [telecom]

New 25Mbps minimum would leave 19% of US homes without broadband access.

by Jon Brodkin

The Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote tomorrow (January 29th) on a change to the definition of "broadband" and in so doing could leave about a fifth of the country without access to service that meets the new minimum standard.

At today's broadband definition of 4Mbps downstream and 1Mbps up, only

6.3 percent of US households have no access to wired broadband.

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