3Mbps Down and 1Mbps Up Are Inadequate Bandwidth Goals

Is there growing consensus in DC to set a broadband goal of 3Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream for residential subscribers? Bad idea, Daily writes. First off, we risk investing taxpayer dollars in inadequate technologies, in deploying broadband that's already outdated before it's even deployed. Secondly, if we rush to get the unconnected served by these lesser technologies we may put rural areas in the position of permanently being second-class digital citizens, both in terms of equipping them with technology that has inadequate capacity as well as preventing them from being eligible for getting future government funding to build the networks they need.