AT&T Believes 10Mbps Upload Ought to Be Enough for Everybody [telecom]

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By Joel Hruska

As planning for the post-pandemic recovery gets underway, eyes are focused on the FCC and America's future broadband policies. There are tens of millions of Americans across the United States with either no access or very limited access to affordable broadband internet. This was a known problem even before the pandemic, but COVID-19 lockdowns exacerbated these issues dramatically. Home broadband use has skyrocketed over the past 12 months. There are proposals before Congress to build an $80 billion nationwide fiber network to serve rural areas that currently lack affordable wireline service. The network would offer 100/100Mbps service with symmetric upload/download bandwidth.