FCC Releases National Broadband Plan
On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission officially released the United States’ first national broadband plan. While many of the recommendations in the plan focused on bringing traditional broadband service to every household in the US, guidelines for the future of mobile broadband were laid out as well.
Currently, the mobile industry in the United States has about 500 megahertz of the wireless spectrum licensed for mobile use. The FCC’s plan calls for increasing that by another 300 megahertz in five years, and 500 megahertz in ten years. This would hopefully prevent what many in the industry have described as a “looming shortage of wireless spectrum could impede U.S. innovation and leadership in popular wireless mobile broadband services.”
Users of 3G and 4G data services in major metropolitan areas like New York and San Francisco have already noticed the effects of a limited grid, particularly on AT&T’s aging network, which is woefully inadequate for servicing the high traffic volume generated by millions of iPhone users.
The entire plan is available for download from the FCC’s website.
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I agree to that Paul and you had a good point to that. Since we are lag behind the rest from the world is broadband Internet - we’re 15th within the world. South Korea has it all over the US in broadband access. To conserve face, the (unconstitutional) FCC has come up with a national broadband plan, that will put faster internet and phone access, as well as rural internet access at insane speeds in more hands, and even save people a payday loans or small installment loans worth every year. It may also create more jobs, and the aim is to have a national broadband network.
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