• Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    8 months ago

    The internet needs to be classified as a utility, living without it is just not possible in the world we have created.

    • iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      I remember the collective shitfit around a decade ago when Obama give out free cell phones to homeless people. It was such a crazy concept to people who have never struggled that yes, you DO need a smartphone to meet your calling, banking and personal management needs. Everything has an online portal. Every job application requires an online portion. It’s how the world works and has worked since the mid 00s.

  • Redhotkurt@kbin.social
    1·
    8 months ago

    You might have figured it out by now, but “megabits per second” is abbreviated as “Mbps” with an uppercase m; yeah, it’s kinda pedantic, but using lowercase means it’s a millibit, which is much, much smaller. The same applies to “gigabits per second,” which should be expressed as “Gbps.”

    At any rate, thank you for posting this, it really is good news. And about time they did this, too.

  • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    I did telecom work about 5 years ago

    It was shocking the amount of area that depends on a low-quality copper wire infrastructure.

    I don’t know if that changed in 5 years, but companies are going to have a hard time getting that replaced nationwide

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    100 mbps? That’s 100 millibits per second, or 0.1 bits per second. I’d certainly hope for better bandwidth than one bit every ten seconds; that’s slower than smoke signals.

  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    It should also require allowing incoming connections. Too much ISPs, especially mobile, are gives one-way Internet now. Basically like having a phone line with no phone number.