It used to be that a paltry 4Mbps down and 1Mbps was all it took for an internet connection to be considered "broadband," but the Federal Communications Commission has just flipped that definition on its ear. FCC commissioners voted 3-2 in favor of upping the broadband threshold, and pretty dramatically too: Now service providers will have to offer speeds of 25Mbps down/3Mbps up if they want to apply that label. Need a little perspective? The average American home broadband connection pulls down around 11Mbps, while some 13 percent of Americans technically don't have broadband internet anymore.
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel aims even higher, stating that she thinks the broadband threshold "frankly, should be 100Mbps" - a move that would finally put the United States in line with the speedy connections available in countries like South Korea. According to the 2014 State of the Internet report issued by Akamai, Korea top the global charts with an average download speed of 23.6Mbps (which worked out to about six times the world average).
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