> But these days mobile terrestrial providers and Starlink are increasingly accomplishing this.
They're really not. Starlink's median speed with the small number of users they have is ~90 Mbps.
Mobile providers in rural areas are even slower, and prohibitively expensive ($110/month for 200GB of data was about the best I saw).
> So instead of saying "great, this problem is being solved, let's move on to other things", the FCC prefers to move the goalposts in order to retain that particular power and budget and mission.
Of course the goalposts move. As network speeds improve, applications grow to rely on that excess bandwidth. A T1 was a really good connection once upon a time, and hasn't been for a decade or two. The FCC should be updating these baseline speeds to reflect what the average citizen needs, instead of saying "yup, 1Mbps was good in 1990, so it's clearly sufficient in 2022".
They're really not. Starlink's median speed with the small number of users they have is ~90 Mbps.
Mobile providers in rural areas are even slower, and prohibitively expensive ($110/month for 200GB of data was about the best I saw).
> So instead of saying "great, this problem is being solved, let's move on to other things", the FCC prefers to move the goalposts in order to retain that particular power and budget and mission.
Of course the goalposts move. As network speeds improve, applications grow to rely on that excess bandwidth. A T1 was a really good connection once upon a time, and hasn't been for a decade or two. The FCC should be updating these baseline speeds to reflect what the average citizen needs, instead of saying "yup, 1Mbps was good in 1990, so it's clearly sufficient in 2022".