As I discussed a few weeks ago, the U.S. ranks 19^th in the world when it comes to Internet download speed.  The fastest country is South Korea.  We need to do better. The Obama administration’s applaudable goal is to have broadband in every home, school and workplace.  So last month the Federal Communications Commission raised an interesting point by asking: Just what is “broadband?”

As reported on ArsTechnica.com, the computer gaming industry is not pleased with the response that AT&T filed with the FCC.  It suggested that online games should be relegated to the category of being nice but not essential. “For Americans who today have no terrestrial broadband service at all,” AT&T wrote the Commission, “the pressing concern is not the ability to engage in real-time, two-way gaming, but obtaining meaningful access to the Internet’s resources and to reliable email communications and other basic tools that most of the country has come to expect as a given.” Continue…