In a new proposal that has been deemed as unrealistic by many companies specialising in telecommunication the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US has confirmed its intention to require that by 2010 all homes should be offered a minimum broadband connection from their broadband internet service provider.
According to the chairman of the commission Julius Genachowski the FCC wants to see broadband connections to 100 million homes capable of download connection speeds of 100Mbps to be provided by broadband services providers in ten years time.
With plans in the UK to offer a guaranteed broadband connection speed of at 2Mbps throughout the country the currently estimated average broadband connection speed in the US is just below 4Mbps based on findings from the industry.
With the National Broadband Plan soon to be released by FCC in the next few months it expected that this latest proposal will form part of this plan and comes following the announcement by Google to build its own high-speed broadband network, which has worried a lot of broadband network providers.
Among those who disagreed with latest plan from the FCC was Edward Mueller, the communications international chief executive for Qwest Communications, who said “A 100 meg is just a dream. We couldn’t afford it.”
He went on to add “First, we don’t think the customer wants that. Secondly, if (Google has) invented some technology, we’d love to partner with them.”
Calls for “extreme forms of regulation that would cripple, if not destroy, the very investments needed to realize its goal,” should be strongly resisted at the moment according to telecommunications giant AT&T.
Trials of the 100Mbps and above using Fiber-Optic FiOS network has already been completed successfully said Verizon, a company that currently has networks that are already far more advanced than other service providers.
Source – IT Pro