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FCC’s “nutrition labels” for broadband show speed, caps, and hidden fees

The Federal Communications Commission today unveiled new broadband labels modeled after the nutrition labels commonly seen on food products. Home Internet service providers and mobile carriers are being urged to use the labels to give consumers details such as prices (including hidden fees tacked onto the base price), data caps, overage charges, speed, latency, packet loss, and so on.

ISPs aren't required to use these...

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Washington state schools connectivity good, but still not great: 88 percent meeting FCC’s speed goal
Photo via EducationSuperHighway/Map of U.S. school connectivity
To compete in our digital world, students needs access to high-speed Internet, but as this latest report from Education SuperHighway shows, how state governments are progressing with the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to get every school district to speeds of at least 100 kbps per student goes from excellent, to good, to not...
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