{"id":5071,"date":"2012-03-23T21:05:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T21:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2012\/03\/23\/a-report-on-consumer-wireline-broadband\/"},"modified":"2012-03-23T21:05:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T21:05:27","slug":"a-report-on-consumer-wireline-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/03\/23\/a-report-on-consumer-wireline-broadband\/","title":{"rendered":"A Report on Consumer Wireline Broadband Performance in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn every other industry, giving your customers less than what they paid for is a very serious offense. ISPs should be held to the same standard, no matter how much they try to spin their way out of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

“Generally ISPs do not expressly guarantee advertised speeds, but rather may describe\u00a0<\/span>an advertised speed as an \u201cup to\u201d speed, suggesting that consumers can expect to experience\u00a0<\/span>performance up to the advertised speed, with actual performance varying based upon network\u00a0<\/span>conditions and other factors. ”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn every other industry, giving your customers less than what they paid for is a very serious offense. ISPs should be held to the same standard, no matter how much they try to spin their way out of it.\u201d “Generally ISPs do not expressly guarantee advertised speeds, but rather may describe\u00a0an advertised speed as an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video_graphics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-1jN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5072,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/03\/23\/a-report-on-consumer-wireline-broadband-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":5071,"position":0},"title":"A Report on Consumer Wireline Broadband Performance in the U.S.","author":"monochromist","date":"March 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cIn every other industry, giving your customers less than what they paid for is a very serious offense. 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