Must just be a big coincidence. It touts the Biden administration and several of the telecoms as internet heroes, when the truth is, they are providing next to nothing.
What did the big telcoms do instead? They stole it. So what is the Biden Administration doing? Giving them more money so they can steal that too.
There are a few other ways to qualify, but overall you have to be poor. What the article fails to mention is that none of these connections hold up to comprehensive RRUL testing Realtime Response Under Load , making them virtually worthless. This tester shows the actual performance we experience most of the time. Their speeds are not fast enough to run a Zoom connection consistently, and definitely not two connections.
The FCC, the telecoms, and our state and local public institutions refuse to use the better RRUL standard because they know it will reveal how terrible their connections actually are. Neither the federal government nor Washington state has a real high-speed standard, although Washington is a bit better than the feds.
Consistent upload speeds are necessary for anything that requires video conferencing; think: telemedicine, online education, online sign language interpretation and many other real-time assistive services, any time you want to see the speaker.
