In its annual broadband status report, the Federal Communications Commission determined U.S. broadband deployments are not happening in a “reasonable and timely fashion.” The commission says the 34 million residents still without quality broadband is not acceptable.
The study found 10% of the U.S. population “still lack access to fixed broadband at the FCC’s benchmark speed of 25 [megabits per second]for downloads, 3 Mbps for uploads” and two-thirds of the country still only have one broadband provider capable of providing 25 Mbps speeds or better. U.S. schools are also not hitting broadband targets. According to the report, 41% of schools have not hit the FCC’s watermark of providing 100 Mbps speeds to students.
