The number of Americans lacking broadband could soon go up. That’s a good thing.

Federal regulators will soon raise the minimum definition for broadband by more than 500 percent if Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, gets his way.

The new standard would set the floor for basic broadband at speeds of 25 megabits per second for downloads and 3 Mbps for uploads. The change would technically increase the number of U.S. households on sub-par Internet, creating pressure for the FCC to work to bring those households up to the new, faster standard.

By Brian Fung

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