DISQUS

"The consumer protection sections of the FTC report raise this question: are broadband providers engaging in a deceptive practice when they advertise a connection speed of, for example, “up to” 768 kilobits per second (kbps) – and yet actual speeds are considerably lower?"

As a member of the Communications Workers of America, our Speed Matters campaign www.speedmatters.org, is speaking out on these issues. One of our goals is a standard that consumers can use to evaluate the speed and reliability of broadband services provided in a market. In addition, the current FCC standard of "high speed" is entirely too low. Our aim is for a national standard of 2 mbps downstream and 1 mbps upstream as a more realistic standard.