The FCC should not ignore the broadband needs of community...
The FCC should not ignore the broadband needs of community anchor institutions as it addresses the future of the Universal Service Fund, the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition said in a filing at the FCC. “Schools, health care…
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providers, libraries, public safety providers, public media, and others … require open, affordable, high-capacity broadband to provide all the essential educational and informational services that their communities demand, especially vulnerable and ‘at-risk’ populations,” the coalition said. “Unfortunately, the National Broadband Map and several other studies show that community anchor institutions often are not able to obtain the affordable, high-capacity bandwidth that they need.” The group said the 4 Mbps standard the FCC cites for residential users is a far too low of throughput rate for anchor institutions. Anchor institutions are “'multi-user environments’ that generally have 10 to 50 or more computers in use simultaneously sharing the same broadband connection,” the group said. “As a rule of thumb, community anchor institutions should have a minimum of 1 Mbps level of service for every computer.”