Today, USTelecom filed comments on the FCC’s recent proposal to raise the fixed broadband speed benchmark to 100/20 Mbps, consistent with speeds required by federal funding programs like BEAD. We agreed with this proposal but urged the Commission not to set a future, aspirational benchmark goal of 1 Gbps/500 Mbps as it is impossible to accurately predict the pace of technological progress, and doing so could discourage continued innovation. We also urged the Commission to limit its inquiry to the progress of broadband deployment and explained that there is no basis for expanding the inquiry to issues such as service quality, affordability, adoption, competition, and equitable access.
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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.ustelecom.org/ustelecom-pushes-back-against-fcc-proposal-to-expand-section-706-inquiry-beyond-deployment/