SHLB Campaign Seeks to Prod FCC to Include Some Ethernet in BDS Regulation
The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition launched an effort to press the FCC to "make emergency improvements" to a business data service draft order, to ensure anchor institutions have access to affordable broadband offerings. “Providing fast, affordable internet is…
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the best way to improve education and lift community anchor institutions into the future,” said SHLB Executive Director John Windhausen in a release Thursday announcing the #NOBufferBrains campaign, which includes a video. “Schools use Ethernet, Hospitals use Ethernet, and Libraries desperately need Ethernet. The National Broadband Plan set the goal of gigabit speeds for all anchor institutions by 2020, and the FCC must not miss this opportunity to advance that goal.” The group wants the FCC to regulate both legacy TDM and newer Ethernet services with data speeds at or below 50 Mbps "in an equivalent manner to help smaller and rural anchor institutions obtain more affordable broadband connections."