News Story What's Wrong with FCC's Broadband Testing

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Mon, 03/15/2010 - 07:27

In preparation for releasing its national broadband plan tomorrow (which is already coming under criticism ), the Federal Communications Commission has started collecting data from users on their broadband performance -- a test that is also coming under criticism.

Like similar testing a couple of years ago, the broadband.gov testing suffers from one glaring flaw: it is self-selected.

It's reporting the results from a self-selected group who knew about the speed test, had...


 

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