FCC Measuring Broadband Service in the United States

The Federal Communications Commission is continuing its efforts to improve the availability of information describing broadband performance in the US.

A key part of the FCC’s Consumer Empowerment Agenda will be expanding the Measuring Broadband project this year, including publishing two reports in 2012, and expanding the study to include more technologies, extending the study into new regions of the country, and planning to publish more kinds of data. The first round of testing will begin in March. Interested consumers are again encouraged to volunteer to be a part of this important effort to provide detailed and accurate measurements of consumer broadband performance on a national level. Once again, the Measuring Broadband project will develop real data to evaluate ISP broadband performance claims and provide consumers with the ability to compare ISPs in meaningful ways.