“On Thursday, the commission voted 3-2 to raise its broadband metric from 25Mbps for downloads and 3Mbps for uploads.”
For nine years the FCC called a 3Mbps upload broadband. The new floor is 100Mbps down and 20Mbps up, and the FCC’s own data says 45 million Americans lack access to it. The two Republican commissioners dissented because Starlink doesn’t count toward the benchmark. A definition decides who gets subsidy money, and that is exactly why the vote split 3-2.