FCC Proposes 100Mbps Minimum Home Broadband Speed 461
oxide7 writes "The US Federal Communications Commission unveiled a plan on Tuesday that would require Internet providers to offer minimum home connection speeds by 2020, a proposal that some telecommunications companies panned as unrealistic. The FCC wants service providers to offer home Internet data transmission speeds of 100 megabits per second to 100 million homes by a decade from now, Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said."
1984 (Score:4, Funny)
Because 100mbps is the bandwidth required for the telescreens?
The Dept, of Agriculture will soon propose... (Score:5, Funny)
The next round of government rule-making... (Score:5, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our new pony-mandating FTC overlords and our rainbow-mandating EPA overlords. Every American should have the government-granted right to upload pictures of their pony galloping under a rainbow at 100 Mbps speeds!
Re:That would be all well and good (Score:3, Funny)
My router is an Apple Airport Extreme, and it says 10/100/1000 right here on the box.
So, 10/100 = 0.1 mbps / 1000 = 0.0001 mbps, or 12.5 bytes per second! ...
Oh wait...
Re:Already there (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Already there (Score:4, Funny)
Yes but then I'd have to deal with you damn swedes. Sorry, no offense, but I recently had to work with a guy from Sweden who we'll just say was difficult.