FCC vote to force high-speed internet upgrades angers cable industry

In terms of internet speed test, broadband is any high-speed Internet access that is always on and faster than traditional dial-up access. Given the fact that the FCC recently bumped the standard definition of broadband to 25 Mbps to highlight competition gaps; reclassified ISPs as common carriers; passed real net neutrality rules for the first time ever; taken aim at the industry's use of protectionist state law to keep the duopoly intact; pushed for improved broadband privacy rules.

Indeed today broadband industry lobby groups like cable lobby want to stop internet speed test investigations from individual states on claims made by service providers, and they are citing the F.C.C rules in their effort to hinder the state-level actions.

The industry attempt to undercut state internet speed test investigations comes a few months after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit against Charter and its Time Warner Cable (TWC) subsidiary that claims the ISP defrauded and misled New Yorkers by promising Internet speeds the company knew it could not deliver.

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