FCC Finds Subpar Internet Connection Speeds
A new FCC report has found that more than half of American households don't meet the FCC's speed goals for universal service as laid out in the National Broadband Plan.
The report found that of the roughly 70 million connections it tested, only 44 percent met the agency's speed goal of 4 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream.
These findings highlight overall increases in high-speed Internet adoption but also suggest that current broadband connectivity falls well short of the FCC's goals.
This report follows recent FCC findings that there is a 50 percent broadband Internet speed gap between what is advertised and what Americans actually experience at home.
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