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No need for speed: Cable industry opposes 25Mbps broadband definition
The cable lobby is opposed to a Federal Communications Commission plan to define "broadband" as speeds of at least 25Mbps downstream and 3Mbps up. Customers do just fine with lower speeds, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) wrote in an FCC filing Thursday. 25Mbps/3Mbps isn't necessary to meet the legal definition of "high-speed, switched, broadband telecommunications capability that enables users to originate...
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So this is how bad capitalism has gotten, they have grown so fat they literally tell the customer what they need and don't need as if they are doing us a favor.