Measuring Broadband America: A Report on Consumer Wireline Broadban Performance in the U.S., July Report.

摘要

This July 2012 Measuring Broadband America Report contains the most recent results from the Federal Communication Commissions Measuring Broadband America program, an ongoing, rigorous, nationwide performance study of residential broadband performance in the United States. The study involves actual performance tests for thousands of subscribers of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) serving well over 80 percent of the residential market. Our initial Measuring Broadband America Report, released in August 2011, presented the first broad-scale study of actual home broadband performance throughout the United States. The Measuring Broadband America program developed out of a recommendation by the National Broadband Plan (NBP) to improve the availability of information for consumers about their broadband service.1 It is part of a comprehensive series of initiatives that draw upon cooperation between the Commission, industry, and other stakeholders to promote transparency and ensure that consumers get the information they need to make informed marketplace decisions and to effectively manage communications subscriptions and services. Other examples include the bill shock initiative, which notifies mobile subscribers before they incur overage charges, and the PROTECT initiative, which informs consumers about how to secure their smartphones and deters theft by preventing smartphones from being reactivated.