FCC asks us all: what, exactly, is broadband?

You'd think they'd know this by now, but the Federal Communications Commission is always full of surprises. The FCC has put out a Public Notice asking the wise to help them define "broadband." Well, not exactly "define" it. Hold your breath... The agency wants "tailored" or "targeted" comments on a "fundamental question": how the National Broadband Plan that the agency is writing up should "interpret" the word--as used in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, "recognizing that our interpretation of the term as used in that statute may inform our interpretation of the term in other contexts."

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