Nice to see it all spelled out. I wonder<div>to what extent this means that providers</div><div>will have to adapt their terminology.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:55 PM, David Pembrook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@pembrook.net">david@pembrook.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 3/24/2011 12:50 PM, Dagny Scott wrote:
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<div>Below a manhole in the item you sent</div>
<div>it mentions that 133 cities and town have</div>
<div>there own broadband systems. That </div>
<div>could mean almost anything, since </div>
<div>broadband apparently means 200Kbps</div>
<div>and above to many people. </div>
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The FCC defines broadband has having at least 4mbps down.<br>
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</div><b>I don't have broadband anymore!!! </b>I don't have a full 1Mbps
up LOL<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" target="_blank">Federal
Communications Commission</a> (FCC) as of 2010, defines "Basic
Broadband" as data transmission speeds of at least 4 megabits per
second (Mbps), or 4,000,000 bits per second, downstream (from the
Internet to the user’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer" target="_blank">computer</a>) and 1
Mbit/s upstream (from the user’s computer to the Internet).<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_Internet_access#cite_note-2" target="_blank"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a><br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_Internet_access" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_Internet_access</a><br>
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