On average, the United States has the slowest, most expensive Internet access market among advanced economies. Fiber is not only faster it’s also cheaper long-term. These connections have already proven to be future-proof, capable of reaching not just gigabit speeds, but multi-gigabit speeds. A large majority of them will be in Asia, primarily led by China. America Is Behind by Choices Made by a Handful of Political and Regulatory LeadersĪ billion fiber optic connections to the Internet are coming online in just a few years. New services and applications will be tested and created in Asia, not here, and the next Silicon Valley premised on high upload low latency applications and services will not be in California.
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Senate, which has passed no universal 21st-century broadband plan, as to why Majority Whip Clyburn’s Affordable, Accessible Internet Act is the federal answer.īut so long as our local, state, and federal governments do not prioritize delivering future-proofed infrastructure to all people, our ability to make full use of the 21 st century Internet will be limited. Most notably, in response to these problems, the House of Representatives passed a universal fiber plan as part of the COVID-19 recovery effort, and we continue to make the case to the U.S. People that lack fiber infrastructure are stuck with second-class Internet access with limited potential as prices continue to rise, slow speeds become obsolete, and needs for better access grow. At the very start of the stay-at-home orders, EFF expressed our concern that our failure to deliver ubiquitous, affordable, future-proofed infrastructure is going to hurt the most vulnerable. Since then, the pandemic changed our world, as remote work and education became a necessity for most people. communications infrastructure toward a fiber-for-all future.
regulatory system started getting it wrong (as far back as 2005), and suggested a path forward at the federal and state level (including legislation) for transitioning the U.S. Since then, we’ve produced technical research showing why fiber is vastly superior to all the alternative last mile broadband options in terms of its future potential, published legal research on how the U.S. Over a year ago, EFF raised the desperate need for the United States to have a universal fiber infrastructure plan in order to ensure that all Americans can obtain access to 21 st century communications technology.
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