The FCC yesterday approved raising national benchmarks to 100Mbps download speeds and 20Mbps upload speeds. This is a significant increase over the current standard of 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload. The FCC has established rules that say a 5G service can be considered high speed if it provides 35 Mbps downstream and 3 Mbps upstream.
With this change, the FCC declared that 45 million Americans still do not have access to high-speed internet through fixed lines such as cable or fiber, or even wireless providers such as 5G home internet.
The ruling has major implications for FCC subsidies that help internet providers bring high-speed internet to rural America. To participate, ISPs must meet new 100 Mbps download speeds and 20 Mbps upload speeds to get funding for wireline projects. This should help internet service providers offer even faster internet speeds in the future.
The FCC report analyzes the current state of high-speed internet in the United States as follows:
- Fixed terrestrial broadband service (excluding satellite) is not physically deployed to approximately 24 million Americans. This includes nearly 28% of Americans who live in rural areas and more than 23% of people who live on tribal lands.
- Mobile 5G-NR coverage with minimum speeds of 35/3 Mbps is not physically deployed to approximately 9% of all Americans, nearly 36% of rural Americans, and more than 20% of people living on tribal lands. yeah.
- 45 million Americans lack access to both 100/20 Mbps fixed services and 35/3 Mbps mobile 5G-NR services.and
- Based on a new short-term benchmark for schools and classrooms of 1 Gbps per 1,000 students and staff, 74% of districts are meeting this goal.
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