Comments on: FTC Report on Broadband Resurrects Freedom of Service Information http://techliberation.com/2007/07/03/ftc-report-on-broadband-resurrects-freedom-of-service-information/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Sat, 26 May 2012 17:40:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Paul Bolbat http://techliberation.com/2007/07/03/ftc-report-on-broadband-resurrects-freedom-of-service-information/comment-page-1/#comment-47774 Paul Bolbat Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:12:14 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/07/03/ftc-report-on-broadband-resurrects-freedom-of-service-information/#comment-47774 <p>"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?"<br><br>As a member of the Communications Workers of America, our Speed Matters campaign <a href="http://www.speedmatters.org">www.speedmatters.org</a>, 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.</p> “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 http://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.

]]> By: Paul Bolbat http://techliberation.com/2007/07/03/ftc-report-on-broadband-resurrects-freedom-of-service-information/comment-page-1/#comment-38785 Paul Bolbat Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:12:14 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/07/03/ftc-report-on-broadband-resurrects-freedom-of-service-information/#comment-38785 <p>"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?"</p> <p>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.</p> “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 http://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.

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