What defines "broadband"

[guest2013-1]

Interesting, I was reading up on the WoW patch notes and found a bluepost explaining latency additions to the UI and he said:

*As of July 2010, the 'official' definition of Broadband Internet (per the FCC) is '4Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream'. Anything lower than this is not 'officially' broadband.

I think we need to contact the ASA and have all these "broadband" claims in advertising across the entire South Africa revoked until they comply with "4Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream"

Don't you think?

 

[Zen17h]

I say it should be done, hopefully it will cause them to wake up and do something to improve the state of broadband in SA and not just remove it from ads.

... who am I kidding! They will just remove broadband and continue lounging

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[Pada]

'broadband' is just a telecoms term for saying that the technology uses a broad spectrum of frequencies. It has nothing to do with the throughput.

 

[schumi]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadband/14016-What-broadband.html

 

[guest2013-1]

'broadband' is just a telecoms term for saying that the technology uses a broad spectrum of frequencies. It has nothing to do with the throughput.

The FCC defined it. The term itself is useless to describe a service. My ass is broadband because I can fart in a spectrum of frequencies...

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadband/14016-What-broadband.html

Again, I'm talking about what the world (you know, the thing that revolves around the sun) thinks what the definition of broadband is... *rolleyes*

 

[Pada]

Just read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband

 

[Valerion]

Interesting, I was reading up on the WoW patch notes and found a bluepost explaining latency additions to the UI and he said:



I think we need to contact the ASA and have all these "broadband" claims in advertising across the entire South Africa revoked until they comply with "4Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream"

Don't you think?

The ASA will simply use ICASA's definition, as they and not the FCC are the local regulators. By that, 384 kbps is considered broadband, so the case will just get dismissed. Now if you can convince ICASA to change the definition you may have a case.

 

[Srack0verflow]

Again, I'm talking about what the world (you know, the thing that revolves around the sun) thinks what the definition of broadband is... *rolleyes*

oja, forgot America is an other word for Earth