[LINK] defining broadband

[Scott Howard]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Tom Worthington <
tom.worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:

> From the article quoted it appears the USA uses 768 kbps. I wonder why
> they used that figure, as it does not seem to match any technical
> standard. Perhaps it is the speed which enough marginal voters can get
> to influence a US election? ;-)


768Kbps is the normal "slow" or "basic" DSL speed offered by telco's such as
AT&T in the US.

It's pretty much the equivalent to the 512Mbps which is offered by
Australian telco's as their entry-level ADSL product. I don't recall ever
seeing 512Mbps used in the US, and after all they are both basically just
arbitrary values, based on economic rather than technical reasons.

  Scott